Article – Suzan Mazur

I first met Metropolitan Museum ancient Near East expert Oscar Muscarella in the late 1980s. I went to see him at his office to discuss some safety pins or “fibulas” which had turned up in a couple of tumuli in southwest Turkey along with other artifacts …
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On August 27, 1991, Bob “the biggest dealer” Hecht, now on trial in Rome for antiquities trafficking, sent the following handwritten letter to Turkish journalist Ozgen Acar about their shared enthusiasm for ancient coins, among other subjects. I was mentioned, …
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Article – Suzan Mazur

Bob Hecht, the dean of antiquities dealers now on trial for trafficking stolen art, has apparently since his youth at Haverford College been single-minded in his passion for recapturing the glories of the ancient world. Much like late paleoanthropologist …
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Proceedings resume December 5 in the trial of the dean of ancient art dealers — Bob Hecht — and former Getty museum antiquities curator Marion True. Will Sotheby’s be called to answer questions about some of the items listed by Italian prosecutors …
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