Getty Museum to Return Two Greek Masterpieces

A decade-long dispute with Greek cultural officials over a number of objects in the J. Paul Getty Museum collection appears to be ending, as the museum has announced plans to return the final two works to Greece today, reports the Los Angeles Times.

The museum, which bought the two objects—a funerary wreath and a marble statue of a woman, both dating to about 400 BC—in 1993 for $4.45-million, has displayed the items prominently in its newly renovated Getty Villa, outside of Malibu. The museum has promised to return 28 items in the past month alone, the paper reports.

In a separate, but related, development, the Getty’s former antiquities curator, Marion True, may be the subject of further prosecution. A Greek prosecutor recommended criminal charges against Ms. True, who is currently on trial in Rome for looting antiquities, The Times reports. Ms. True has previously denied wrongdoing but was not quoted in the article.