J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, USA, announced that it returned the antique bronze head it bought from an antique dealer in 1971 to Turkey.
The decision to return the work is in Turkey. ‘bubon’ (Burdur, Gölhisar) It was taken in light of new information proving that she was kidnapped in the 1960s from a Roman settlement known as .
According to The New York Times, Türkiye has been investigating the artifacts smuggled from Bubon in recent years. Efforts are being made to return many bronze objects held by American museums or private collectors to Turkey.
Museum director Timothy Potty said: “We want to continue to establish a constructive relationship with the Turkish Ministry of Culture and our archaeologists, curators and other academic colleagues working in Turkey.” said.
Museum ‘The body of the figure has not been identified, but its head has been associated by some academics with the Bubon archaeological site in southwestern Turkey.’ he stated.
Most bronze artifacts from the Bubon archaeological site depict Roman emperors or their family members. The artifact returned by the museum is also from the Roman period, but it is still unknown whether it belongs to a specific person. ‘Head from a Youth Statue’ judicial The work belongs to the period between the first century BC and the first century AD.
Türkiye has been demanding the return of many works on the grounds that they were taken illegally from the country for a long time. The four requested works, including the work in question, were sold to the museum by an art dealer named Nicolas Koutoulakis, who died in 1996. It is known that the works sold by Koutoulakis are generally contraband. For example, when a carved piece that an art dealer sold to the museum for 20 thousand dollars (650 thousand liras) turned out to be stolen, the museum had to return the work to Greece in 2011.
