International Journal of Cultural Property

Table of Contents - 2007 - Volume 14, Issue 02  


From Malibu to Rome: Further Developments on the Return of Antiquities

David  Gill  a1 and Christopher  Chippindale  a2
a1 Centre for Egyptology and Mediterranean Archaeology, School of Humanities, University of Wales Swansea. Email: d.w.j.gill@swansea.ac.uk
a2 Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Email: cc43@cam.ac.uk

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Abstract

During 2006 three major North American Museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, agreed to return a significant number of antiquities to Italy. Acquisition information relating to the return of 26 items to Italy and 4 to Greece from the Getty can be added to the details known from the objects returned from Boston. A more detailed picture is emerging of how antiquities, apparently looted from Italy, were being passed through Switzerland on their way to dealers in Europe and North America. This information also points toward other antiquities that may be included in future agreements. a


Footnotes

a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The authors are grateful to Karol Wight of the J. Paul Getty Museum for her willingness to check details about various pieces in Malibu. They are also grateful to Neil Brodie, Morag Kersel, and Peter Watson for comments on an earlier draft. Cass Cliatt (Princeton University), Jordan Rundgren (public relations manager, Toledo Museum of Art), and Lynette Nyman (press and public relations manager, Minneapolis Institute of Arts) kindly provided press releases relating to objects in their collections. Keith Padgham kindly assisted with checking some references.