A clay tablet retelling part of the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ – one of thousands of ancient artifacts looted and smuggled out of Iraq, mostly to the US – has been formally returned to its rightful owner.
The 3,500-year-old clay cuneiform tablet is the centerpiece of the program of repatriation of antiquities stolen from Iraq over decades. On Tuesday, it was put on display in Baghdad alongside two other items – a Sumerian ram’s head and a Sumerian tablet. The artifacts were recovered from the US and the UK.
Speaking during a media conference, Iraqi Minister of Culture and Antiquities Hassan Nazim said the return of the artifacts sent a signal to buyers of smuggled items that “ultimately, the fate of such operations is restitution.”
The so-called “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet” retells the part of the Sumerian epic, in which the hero Gilgamesh tells his dreams to his mother, the goddess Ninsun, asking her to interpret them. The tablet is one of the oldest literary sources in Iraq, but its exact origin remains unknown.
Some media outlets incorrectly trace it back to a 12-tablet collection found in 1853 during the excavation of the ruin of the library of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, which ended up in the British Museum.
The tablet went missing from an Iraqi museum during the 1991 Gulf War and was somehow transported out of the country. In 2001, it resurfaced in the UK and was allegedly smuggled to the US in 2003.
It was bought in 2014 by craft store chain Hobby Lobby, whose Evangelical Christian family owners eventually put it on display in the Museum of the Bible in Washington. Over 5,500 items in the museum collection were later identified as looted artifacts.
US federal agents seized the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet in September 2019. In July this year, a federal judge approved the forfeiture of the artifact, which was physically transported to Iraq in September, along with over 17,000 stolen items recovered from the US.
source: RT
Împotriva articolelor redacției noastre, persoanele nemulțumite pot formula Contestație în termen de 10 zile de la publicarea articolului, la judecătoria Orășenească nr. 1 München Bayern Deutschland, in conformitate cu Legea federală Germană. Considerăm că nu se pot formula acțiuni la instanțele din România deoarece nici o persoană care activează în trustul nostru nu poate fi extrasă de sub jurisdicția federală germană. Considerăm că redacția noastră nu răspunde în fața autorităților din România ci doar celor federale sau civile germane. deoarece legea română nu are efecte de extraneitate asupra redacției chiar dacă subiectul știrilor face obiectul unor evenimente sau persoane din România și sunt scrise în limba română. Limba română nu este izvor de extraneitate a legii.
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