Greece wins a 17-year legal battle for the return of prized antiquities, some dating back to Neolithic times. A triumph for cultural heritage preservation.
The Greek Culture Ministry’s announcement did not specify whether the hundreds of items were part of the same hoard of antiquities that authorities recovered from 45 crates belonging to Symes at a Geneva freeport in Switzerland in 2016, The long-term claim between Greece and Symes’ company involved a large number of people across different departments, including the Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Documentation and Protection of Cultural Properties, archaeologists at the Ministry of Culture...
Greece’s announcement on May 19 also coincided with news from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office of two antiquities being returned to Iraq, one of which had also belonged to Symes. The other item was seized from the collection of former Met trustee Shelby White., the figures were looted from the ancient city of Uruk, now known as Warka, “stolen from Iraq during the Gulf War and smuggled into New York in the late 1990s.
The limestone elephant had been hidden “since at least 1999” in a storage unit belonging to Symes, and was noted for its rarity. “Although elephants were known to have existed in Mesopotamia and have appeared in excavations dating to the 4th millennium, they were rarely represented in art, making this limestone figure one of the very few examples to have survived to the modern day,” the press release said.
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