
A U.S. judge said on Monday an Achaemenid-era (550-330 BC) bas-relief should be returned to Iran, where the object was originally stolen from some 80 years ago.
The limestone relief, which depicts a Persian guard, was confiscated in October from the Park Avenue Armory in New York, where it was being offered for sale at an art fair, the New York Times reported.
Investigators have said the item, valued at $1.2 million, was reported stolen from Iran in 1936 and stolen later in 2011 from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, to which it had been donated decades earlier.
However, the two London-based owners of the relief, Rupert Wace and Sam Fogg, have claimed they acquired the object legally from the Montreal museum’s insurance company.
Wace and Fogg have pledged to surrender the item, the report added.
The bas-relief is an eight-inch-square piece of carved limestone that was part of a long line of soldiers depicted on a balustrade at the central building on the Persepolis site. It dates to the Achaemenid dynasty — or the First Persian Empire — and experts said it was made sometime between 510 and 330 BC, when Persepolis was sacked by Alexander the Great.
美国法官在周一(7月23)说:应该将阿契美尼德王朝 (550-330 BC) 时代的文物归还给伊朗,这是80多年前从伊朗盗窃出来的。
据纽约时报报道,该文物是古代波斯士兵,于10月在纽约一个公园发现及在一个艺术博览会上出售。
据调查人员介绍这件文物价值120万美元是1936年从伊朗盗出来的,在2011年 从Montreal 博物馆(Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)盗出。
伦敦的两名所有者Rupert Wace和Sam Fogg声称他们从Montreal 博物馆(Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)取得合法,但是他们承诺放弃该文物所有权。
文物是一块8英寸雕刻,是波斯波利斯遗址中央建筑物栏杆上描绘的一长串士兵的一部分。它可以追溯到阿契美尼德王朝 (波斯第一帝国时期),当时波斯波利斯被亚历山大大帝洗劫一空。
PHOTO:(照片说明) A 1933 photograph of an excavation of the ruins of Persepolis in Iran. The bas-relief of a soldier from these ruins, which was seized at a Manhattan art fair last year, was ordered to be returned to Iran on July 23, 2018.
1933年伊朗波斯波利斯遗址发掘的照片,去年在Manhattan艺术博览会发现的判令于2018年7月23日归还给伊朗
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