Met returns bronze piece to Greece

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, a mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the seventh century B.C. was probably stolen from an archaeological museum in Olympia in the 1930s.

The museum said the head, which entered the collection as a gift from a former trustee in 1972, would be turned over to Greece’s minister of culture at a ceremony scheduled for Monday at the Met.

The museum said the decision to return it was finalized only a few months ago.

– New York Times