A Cleveland Museum’s Bad Bet on a Looted Roman Statue
about 10 months ago (12/15/2023)
A Cleveland Museum’s Bad Bet on a Looted Roman Statue Skip to content “Draped Male Figure” (circa 150 BCE–200 CE) at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In a previous description on the museum’s website, the headless statue was described as “The Emperor as Philosopher, probably Marcus Aurelius,” and dated to the period immediately following Marcus’ death (“180-200 CE,”). (courtesy the the Cleveland Museum of Art) At a ceremony on December 5 at the Turkish Consulate of New York, 41 looted ancient artworks that had been recovered by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in recent months were repatriated to Turkey .