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I wonder if any list member would be interested in the following, or even be able to suggest whether representations might help, and if so to whom they should be directed. Last year the Iraq Interests Section in London took delivery of two stone sculptures which had been looted from archaeological sites in northern Iraq. One of these was a fragment of bas-relief from the palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh. It had been purchased by a collector and was handed back to the Iraqi authorities after a private agreement between the two sides. The other was the head of a Medusa from the Parthian city of Hatra, and had been seized from a London dealer by Scotland Yard after it had been identified as looted from the site by an Italian archaeologist. The Iraqi Interests Section now wishes to repatriate these two pieces, but their application to do this has been referred by the UK government to the Sanctions Committee in New York (where presumably it will go to the bottom of a very large pile). Any comment? Nicholas Postgate Trinity College Cambridge CB2 1TQ jnp10@cam.ac.uk -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk CASI's website - www.casi.org.uk - includes an archive of all postings.