[CPProt.net] The J. Paul Getty Museum will consider Greece's request to return four antiquities to the country after its new director takes up his position next year.

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Getty puts Greece on hold
>From Bloomberg News

December 2, 2005

The J. Paul Getty Museum will consider Greece's request to return four
antiquities to the country after its new director takes up his position next
year. 

The Greek Culture Ministry said it had received a letter to that effect from
Michael Brand, who takes over as museum director in January. 

But the ministry said in a statement that it wasn't satisfied with the
response and would continue to press its case for return, by legal means if
necessary.

The contested antiquities are a gold funerary wreath, a votive relief, an
inscribed tombstone and a marble sculpture of a woman's torso dating to 400
B.C. Greece claims the items were illegally smuggled from the country. Last
month the Getty returned three artifacts to Italy that officials there said
had been looted.