美國法官判令82年前盜走的阿契美尼德文物歸還伊朗

08-14

來自專欄一品波斯文化

A U.S. judge said on Monday an Achaemenid-era (550-330 BC) bas-relief should be returned to Iran, where the object was originally stolen from some 80 years ago.

The limestone relief, which depicts a Persian guard, was confiscated in October from the Park Avenue Armory in New York, where it was being offered for sale at an art fair, the New York Times reported.

Investigators have said the item, valued at $1.2 million, was reported stolen from Iran in 1936 and stolen later in 2011 from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, to which it had been donated decades earlier.

However, the two London-based owners of the relief, Rupert Wace and Sam Fogg, have claimed they acquired the object legally from the Montreal museum』s insurance company.

Wace and Fogg have pledged to surrender the item, the report added.

The bas-relief is an eight-inch-square piece of carved limestone that was part of a long line of soldiers depicted on a balustrade at the central building on the Persepolis site. It dates to the Achaemenid dynasty — or the First Persian Empire — and experts said it was made sometime between 510 and 330 BC, when Persepolis was sacked by Alexander the Great.

美國法官在周一（7月23）說：應該將阿契美尼德王朝 (550-330 BC) 時代的文物歸還給伊朗，這是80多年前從伊朗盜竊出來的。

據紐約時報報道，該文物是古代波斯士兵，於10月在紐約一個公園發現及在一個藝術博覽會上出售。

據調查人員介紹這件文物價值120萬美元是1936年從伊朗盜出來的，在2011年從Montreal 博物館（Montreal Museum of Fine Arts）盜出。

倫敦的兩名所有者Rupert Wace和Sam Fogg聲稱他們從Montreal 博物館（Montreal Museum of Fine Arts）取得合法，但是他們承諾放棄該文物所有權。

文物是一塊8英寸雕刻，是波斯波利斯遺址中央建築物欄杆上描繪的一長串士兵的一部分。它可以追溯到阿契美尼德王朝（波斯第一帝國時期），當時波斯波利斯被亞歷山大大帝洗劫一空。

PHOTO:（照片說明） A 1933 photograph of an excavation of the ruins of Persepolis in Iran. The bas-relief of a soldier from these ruins, which was seized at a Manhattan art fair last year, was ordered to be returned to Iran on July 23, 2018.

1933年伊朗波斯波利斯遺址發掘的照片，去年在Manhattan藝術博覽會發現的判令於2018年7月23日歸還給伊朗