The Getty Museum in Los Angeles on
Friday said it would return a famed and illicitly exported
Ancient Greek statuary group, Orpheus and the Sirens, to Italy.
The groups includes life-size terracotta figures of a poet and
two sirens, or singing mermaids.
It was discovered in Puglia and dates back to the fourth century
BC, when Magna Graecia culture was at its peak in southern
Italy.
Italy has been seeking to get it back since 2006.
Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos recently proved that the
group was exported from Italy illegally.
The prosecutor's efforts also recently resulted in the return to
Italy of 142 other antiquities, mostly from the collection of
New York financier Michael Steinhardt.
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