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Getty museum to return ancient artifact to Sicily

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January 12, 2013, 12:00 am TWN

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LOS ANGELES -- The J. Paul Getty Museum said Thursday it plans to return to Sicily a terra-cotta head depicting the Greek god Hades after determining it was clandestinely excavated from an archaeological site in the 1970s.

The museum took the initiative to investigate the piece's origins after seeing fragments in a publication that could join to the head, which dates to about 300 or 400 B.C., according to Timothy Potts, the museum's director.

The Getty acquired the piece in 1985, and Potts said it's believed it was taken from the Morgantina Archaeological Park in Italy in the 1970s.

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