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Feds Seize Another Suspect Antiquity Headed for Auction House in New York

March 15, 2016 by Marion Maneker

The Feds seized another Asian antiquity they suspect had been looted as it entered the US:

Officials with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations said in a statement that they had confiscated a “second century bodhisattva schist head” from the Gandhara civilization and likely looted from a region that is now part of Pakistan.

But they provided few other details about the seizure, including where it had taken place, except to say that the head had been intercepted at a port in the New York area. The statement said that the head was in transit to an “East Coast auction house.”

Federal Agents Seize What They Called an Illicit Antiquity Headed for Asia Week (The New York Times)

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