LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA—According to a report in The New York Times, the J. Paul Getty Museum will repatriate a, 2,000-year-old bronze sculpture purchased from an antiquities dealer in 1971. An investigation conducted by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit at the Manhattan district attorney’s office indicates that the sculpture, “Head from a Statue of a Youth,” was likely stolen in the 1960s from Bubon, a Roman-era settlement in southwestern Turkey. The body of the statue has not been identified. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has also secured the return of several other Bubon artifacts with fabricated or misrepresented provenances that were held by American collectors. To read about an ancient Roman city in southern Turkey, go to "Zeugma After the Flood."
