Bronze funerary couchJ. Paul Getty Museum
Posted on 09/26/2024 10:37:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
ArtNews reports that the J. Paul Getty Museum has repatriated to Turkey a bronze funerary couch dated to 530 B.C. Provenance records suggest that the bed had been in several European collections from the 1920s through the 1980s, when the museum purchased the artifact from an antiquities dealer. However, Gökhan Yazgı of Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism and officials from the Getty Museum confirmed that the records had been falsified by a former owner. Recent research determined that the couch had been illegally excavated in the early 1980s in western Turkey's Manisa region, where Turkish archaeologists have excavated a tomb with similar fabrics, wood, and bronze artifacts. "We seek to continue building a constructive relationship with the Turkish Ministry of Culture," concluded museum director Timothy Potts.
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Bronze funerary couchJ. Paul Getty Museum
where do you put the remote?
That’ll buff right out...............
Yeah, it kinda sucks. ;^)
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.
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.
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!
I do wonder from what site it was plucked.
It would make a decent tanning bed now. :^)
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.
“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.
“...has repatriated to Turkey a bronze funerary couch...”
They must’ve just found this in NYC Mayor Adams’ basement at Gracie Mansion. ;)
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In another 3,000 years or so, they’ll refer to this time as the Looters Era.
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.
It was excavated. So Mother Earth had been keeping it safe for the past 2500 years.
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