[MSN] The Getty will be returning. The decision was made at the eleventh hour (so to speak) but it is welcomed. The list of the 40 objects has been released by the Getty.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
The Getty will be returning
 
So the Getty will be returning 40 antiquities to Italy. (See report by Ralph
Frammolino and Jason Felch in the LA Times, August 1, 2007:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-me-getty2aug02,1,5533009.s
tory)

The decision was made at the eleventh hour (so to speak) but it is welcomed.
The list of the 40 objects has been released by the Getty.

Essentially the items are the same as the ones in the November 2006 list of
26 objects. However there are 14 new editions. As expected there were
several items from the Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman collection.

1. Attic Black-Figured Amphora (Painter of Berlin 1686) (96.AE.92).
Reassembled by Fritz Bürki (1988); Atlantis Antiquities (1988). Fleischman,
Passion, no. 34).

2. Attic Black-Figured Amphora (96.AE.93). Purchased from Fritz Bürki
(1989). Said to have been found with two other pots (in the possession of
Robert Hecht and Robin Symes). Fleischman, Passion, no. 35.

3. Attic Red-Figured Cup (96.AE.97). Purchased from Symes (1988).
Fleischman, Passion, no. 39.

4. Apulian Red-Figured Bell Krater (96.AE.29). Acquired from Fritz Bürki.
Fleischman, Passion, no. 56.

5. Bronze Mirror with Relief-Decorated Cover (96.AC.132). Apparently found
at Tarquinia. Fleischman, Passion, no. 83. 

6. Statuette of Tyche (96.AA.49). Purchased from Robin Symes; purchased from
the Fleischmans for US$2 million. Fleischman, Passion, no. 120.

7. Fragment of a fresco: lunette with mask of Hercules – (96.AG.171).
Purchased from Fritz Bürki. Associated with a fragment in the Shelby White
collection. Fleischman, Passion, no. 126. 


The remaining pieces include the acrolithic statue, perhaps from Morgantina,
as well as several pieces of Attic pottery.

8. Cult Statue of a Goddess, perhaps Aphrodite (88.AA.76). (=Masterpieces,
p. 83)

9. Marble Bust of a Man (85.AA.265)

10. Attic Red-Figured Calyx Krater (“Birds”) (82.AE.83).

11. Attic Red-Figured Neck Amphora (84.AE.63).

12. Attic Red-Figured Amphora with Lid (79.AE.139).

13. Attic Red-Figured Kylix (83.AE.287). Attributed to Epiktetos.

14. Attic Janiform Kantharos (83.AE.218)

Other items appear in the Polaroids from the Geneva Freeport - so there may
be additions to this list.

The appearance of former Fleischman material in both Getty lists supports
our earlier comments in The American Journal of Archaeolgy about the way
that collection was formed. (Links to related material, though Athens
password required for parts.)

A full discussion of the November 2006 items (and with a prediction about
some of the additional items) is now in press.

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2007/08/getty-will-be-returning.html

Dr David Gill
Centre for Egyptology & Mediterranean Archaeology
Swansea University
SWANSEA SA2 8PP
UK - Wales