Special thanks to Emily Stegner for her work on these citations.All too often when the words “archaeological provenance” and “museum” appear in a sentence together, we hear disturbing stories of black-market antiquities deals, anonymous middlemen, falsified customs paperwork, smuggling activities, federal civil complaints, and forgeries. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. La Follette, Laetitia. “The Trial of Marion True and Changing Policies for Classical Antiquities in American Museums.” In Laetitia La Follette (ed.), Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property, 39–71. “Looted Antiquities, Art Museums and Restitution in the United States since 1970.” Journal of Contemporary History 52.3 (2017): 669–687. “Morgantina Silver.” Trafficking Culture, November 26, 2012. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. “Appendix 4: The Morgantina Silver Treasure.” In Morgantina Studies, Volume VI: The Hellenistic and Roman Fine Pottery, edited by Shelley C.

“The Morgantina Treasure: Italy’s Quest for Repatriation of Looted Artifacts.” Suffolk Transnational Law Review 23 (July 2000):1-27. “Plunder: The Theft of the Morgantina Silver.” VIRGINIA Magazine, Spring 2006. “A Trove of Ancient Silver Said to Be Stolen Returns to Its Home in Sicily.” The New York Times, December 5, 2010. “Statement by the Metropolitan Museum of Art on its Agreement with Italian Ministry of Culture.” Press, February 21, 2006. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Hartcourt, 2011. Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum. The Medici Conspiracy. New York: Public Affairs, 2007.įelch, Jason and Ralph Frammolino. The Sarpedon Krater: The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase. “Met Chief, Unbowed, Defends Museum’s Role.” New York Times, February 28, 2006. Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Case in Italy suggests MFA received stolen art, Museum says it received no proof.” The Boston Globe, November 4, 2005. “Euphronios (Sarpedon) Krater.” Trafficking Culture, September 6, 2012. On the program today we tackle the big question of repatriation and the decades-long debates involving some famous antiquities returned to Italy from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: the Euphronios Krater (pictured) and the Morgantina Silver.īrodie, Neil.

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