{"id":583,"date":"2005-10-25T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2005-10-25T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T10:18:00","slug":"following-italys-lead-greece-demands-getty-return-artworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Following Italy&#039;s Lead, Greece Demands Getty Return Artworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <i>The Los Angeles Times<\/i>, 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&#8217;s former chief curator of antiquities.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole stary at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/state\/20051024-0437-ca-getty-stolenartifacts.html\" target=\"_new\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=583\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Following Italy&#039;s Lead, Greece Demands Getty Return Artworks<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}