American Museum Repatriates Bronze Couch to Turkey

Archaeology Magazine ^ | September 20, 2024 | editors / unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Bronze funerary couch

J. Paul Getty Museum

[SunkenCiv]

[xoxox]

where do you put the remote?

[Red Badger]

That’ll buff right out...............

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, it kinda sucks. ;^)

[DesertRhino]

Such a horrible idea to send treasures back to third world countries, especially Moslem countries. All it takes is an ISIS, an Egyptian revolution, etc and it all gets destroyed.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Exactly. Mudslums have zero respect for the ancient cultures of the lands they conquer.

[Reily]

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has repeatedly stated they will destroy the pyramids and other artifacts of its pre-Islam history.

To a fundamentalist Muslim there is no history prior to Islam.

[packrat35]

I agree but we are no better than ISIS when it comes to historical artifacts...during COVID and the George Floyd protests, we destroyed hundreds of years worth of our history in the name of wokeness!

[Magnum44]

Turkey grateful??

[SunkenCiv]

I do wonder from what site it was plucked.

[SunkenCiv]

It would make a decent tanning bed now. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

It’s being returned because it was heisted. It’s a good idea to leave excavation of antiquities to archaeologists, and it’s a good idea for museums to follow the law.

ISIS destroyed what was left of Pergamon, and there were plenty of jokers on FR who agreed with them.

[MplsSteve]

“It’s being returned because it was heisted. It’s a good idea to leave excavation of antiquities to archaeologists, and it’s a good idea for museums to follow the law.”

Exactly.

It’s (IMHO) no different than art confiscated by the Nazis being returned to the rightful heirs.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...has repatriated to Turkey a bronze funerary couch...”

They must’ve just found this in NYC Mayor Adams’ basement at Gracie Mansion. ;)

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Pergamon was a catastrophe for human culture, as were the Buddhas of Bamiyan. In general I agree with you, but to trust the Turks with anything is foolhardy. The Acropolis, for example, was a disaster worthy of the Taliban. Even the Nazis had more respect for antiquities.

[Vendome]

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[larrytown]

In another 3,000 years or so, they’ll refer to this time as the Looters Era.

[katana]

The ancestors of the Turks were an illiterate pack of nomads roaming the Central Asian Steppe when this artifact graced the home of a Greek or Persian speaking merchant or official. It belongs to whoever has been keeping it intact for these past millennia on behalf of all of humanity, and it should stay with them.

[Verginius Rufus]

It was excavated. So Mother Earth had been keeping it safe for the past 2500 years.