Cleveland Museum of Art A headless bronze statue that may depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius will be repatriated to Turkey after an investigation determined that it had been ...

The headless bronze statue was thought to represent Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. New scientific testing has concluded it was likely looted from Turkey in the 1960s. After 18 months of uncertainty, ...

“I think everyone knows that this is Marcus Aurelius ... been stolen from Turkey. That was rumor.” The Cleveland Museum of ...

Turkey’s claim had at one point hinged in part on convincing investigators that the statue in fact depicts Marcus Aurelius because a stone plinth at the site is inscribed with that emperor’s name.

In the complaint, CMA argued that the statue could represent the Greek tragedian Sophocles or Roman emperors Lucius Verus or Marcus Aurelius, but that “without the head of the Statue ...