Showing posts with label Robert Hecht. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Hecht. Show all posts
January 29, 2026

Ancient Women, Modern Crime: How Etruscan Women Were Trafficked Across the World

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I have long been fascinated by the reddish-buff clay figures of barefoot women placed along the eaves of ancient Etruscan roofs. Dressed in ...
October 20, 2025

The Aboutaam Brothers, Phoenix Ancient Art, and the Hidden Routes of Italy’s Lost Antiquities

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Phoenix Ancient Art - BRAFA 2019  With a precautionary seizure order, filed by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, led by Prosecutor St...
October 8, 2025

Caveat Emptor: What the Dancing Maenad Can Tell Us About the Market for Looted Art

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Christie's 2019 Auction In November 2019, ARCA published a blog post raising questions about a 5th-century BCE polychrome antefix depict...
February 14, 2025

Investigators win repatriation battle as Cleveland Museum of Art backs down

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The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has abandoned its legal fight to prevent the seizure of a prized bronze statue depicting the Roman emperor...
December 6, 2023

New York Authorities return 41 smuggled historical artefacts, dating from the 7th century BCE to the 7th century CE to Turkey

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Yesterday a ceremony was held with officials from the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in New York, where H.E. Gökhan Yazgı, Depu...
September 1, 2023

Seizure: The Emperor as Philosopher, probably Marcus Aurelius ha seized by the New York District Attorney's Office

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Pursuant to a seizure order signed by New York Judge Ruth Pickholz on August 14, 2023, following investigations conducted by the New York Di...
September 12, 2022

Orpheus, the poet, and his two sirens are going home

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Back in August, ARCA wrote about a 11 August 2022 announcement made by the J. Paul Getty Museum where the museum publically stated its inten...