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Private Collector Shelby White to Return Two Objects to Greece

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Published: July 14, 2008
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Collector Shelby White, seen here with Harold Koda, Curator-in-Charge of the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has agreed to return two objects to Greece.

NEW YORK—The New York philanthropist and collector Shelby White, who earlier this year became the first private individual to return antiquities to Italy, has agreed to return two objects from her private collection to Greece, reports Bloomberg.

White will return a section of a tomb stele dating to the early 4th century B.C. and a bronze calyx wine bowl from 340 B.C. this month. The items were illegally excavated from Greece but were acquired by White in good faith, according to the Greek Culture Ministry.

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