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  • Norton Simon Museum To Return Statue Possibly Looted From Cambodian Temple

    05/07/2014 6:15:20 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 3 replies
    cbslocal.com ^ | May 7, 2014 4:33 PM
    <p>PASADENA (AP) — The Norton Simon Museum has agreed to return a 10th century statue that may have been looted from a Cambodian temple during that country’s genocidal civil war in the 1970s.</p> <p>“Temple Wrestler,” a sandstone figure missing its hands and feet, has been displayed at the museum for nearly four decades. The 5-foot-high work depicts Bhima, a heroic figure in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, in a fighting pose.</p>