In the largest ever repatriation of artifacts to Iraq, the US has returned thousands of smuggled items including statues and carvings from ancient Mesopotamia.
In addition to the 17,321 items recovered from the US, a further 17 were handed back from countries including Japan, the Netherlands and Italy. Meanwhile, the best-known of the artifacts, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, will be repatriated"in the next month after legal procedures are finalized," NadhimContaining part of the ancient poem"Epic of Gilgamesh," the 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet measures approximately 6 inches by 5 inches.
The item was then sold on several times before being acquired for over $1.6 million by American retailer Hobby Lobby at a 2014 auction. It was later seized from Washington DC's Museum of the Bible, whose chairman also serves as the president of the craft store chain. Just a week before Tuesday's press conference in Baghdad, a New York federal court ordered Hobby Lobby to forfeit the tablet, according to theThe Museum of the Bible has expressed its support for the government's effort to return the artifact to Iraq. Christie's, the international auction house from which Hobby Lobby bought the item,
that"any suggestion that Christie's had knowledge of the original fraud or illegal importation is unsubstantiated."The artifact joins a growing list of items repatriated to Iraq in recent years. In 2019, a batch of 173 objects"from several countries" was returned, with another 1,300 sent back from neighboring Jordan, according to an
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