The J. Paul Getty Museum, which recently returned ancient artifacts believed looted from Italy, is facing a similar accusation from Greece, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The Greek government in May formally renewed a nine-year-old demand that the museum return a gold funerary wreath, an inscribed tombstone and the marble torso of a woman, all believed to date from around 400 B.C. The museum bought the items in 1993 for $5.2 million. Greece contends the items were stolen from archaeological sites and illegally smuggled out of the country. The Los Angeles Times, citing interviews and law enforcement records, reported that the wreath was bought for $1.15 million from a Swiss art dealer by Marion True, the Getty’s former chief curator of antiquities.
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