A bronze statue supposedly depicting the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius has been removed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, ordered to be seized by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as part of an investigation into a Turkey-based smuggling ring.
The museum’s listing for the headless six-foot-four-inch statue labels it as “Draped Male Figure,” says it dates to 150-200 A.D., and lists the provenance of the piece as coming from Boston-based art dealer Charles Lipson. The sculpture, whose value is estimated at $20 million, had been at the museum since 1986.
The statue was removed over two months ago, and the description online was changed to remove reference to Marcus Aurelius, famed as both a Roman emperor and the Stoic thinker who wrote “Meditations,” a collection of personal writings originally in Greek, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Turkish government contends that the statue was stolen and then smuggled out of the Roman archaeological site of Bubon in southwestern Turkey in the 1960s.
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