The USA returned to Iraq over 60 illegally exported artifacts
ARTinvestment.RU   17 марта 2015

Among the returned items — pottery, glass, bronze. The main value of — limestone head of the Assyrian king

Yesterday at the Consulate of Iraq in Washington was solemnly handed to representatives of the Iraqi government over 60 cultural objects illegally caught in the USA. All these values were found during the RAID of the us immigration and customs enforcement, which was held in new York, Baltimore, Austin (TX) and new haven (Connecticut@

Among the most significant artifacts carved from limestone head of the Assyrian king Sargon II (Sharru-kin II), who ruled in the VIII century BC When this head was crowned with a big statue of the Assyrian winged bull. About the same statue recently destroyed at Nimrud fighters IGIL@

Agents of immigration and customs enforcement seized the sculpture in 2008 at the Dubai art dealer, sent her to new York. Further investigation led to the discovery of a clandestine network of dealers art culture@

Among other returned items is covered with plates of gold plate for soap, water pot and door knocker, stolen from the Palace of Saddam Hussein during the American invasion of 2003, clay tablets with reliefs, objects made of glass, lorestani axe and other weapons Sumerian period (the age of about 4500 let@

since 2008 immigration and customs enforcement U.S. was returned to Iraq over 1,200 works of art and culture@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com, reuters.com, artdaily.com, artinvestment.ru