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Hobby Lobbys forfeited Gilgamesh tablet is headed back to Iraq, and authorities hope it will be a warning to smugglers

Iraq reclaims 17,000 looted artifacts, its biggest-ever repatriation


Iraq reclaims 17,000 looted artifacts, its biggest-ever repatriation
A photo provided by the Museum of the Bible shows the best-known of Hobby Lobby’s Iraqi holdings, a clay tablet roughly 3,500 years old with a fragment of the Gilgamesh epic. The object is expected to be returned in a few weeks. Museum of the Bible via The New York Times.
by Jane Arraf
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- When the Iraqi prime minister’s plane touched down in Baghdad last week after an official visit to the United States, its cargo included 17,000 archaeological artifacts returned by a prominent museum and an Ivy League university in the largest-ever repatriation of looted Iraqi antiquities. ....

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