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Met to Return Two Khmer Statues

May 3, 2013 by Marion Maneker

The New York Times reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning two 10th Century Khmer statues that were donated more than 20 years ago:

On Friday the museum confirmed accounts from Cambodian officials that it intended to repatriate the statues, known as the “Kneeling Attendants,” life-size sandstone masterpieces that flanked a doorway in the Met’s Southeast Asian galleries. […]

Thomas P. Campbell, the director of the Met, said the agreement — one of the more significant in a recent spate of often controversial cultural repatriations — followed new documentary research by the museum that corroborated Cambodian claims that the works had been improperly removed from their site at the Koh Ker temple complex.

The Met to Return Statues to Cambodia (NYTimes)

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