Give us back the thing you stole from us after we stole it.
The question of whom archeological finds belong to can be a fraught one. It may be reasonable for the Greeks to demand Greek artifacts from other European countries. It’s not however remotely reasonable for the Turks to expect Roman artifacts that they have no connection with beyond invading, conquering, and then looting the territory where they could be found. That’s the equivalent of a car thief demanding the impound lot return the car he stole. And yet, the Islamic colonizers in Turkey are demanding the head of a Roman statue.
A bronze head of Emperor Septimius Severus on display at a Copenhagen museum has become a bone of contention between the Danish museum and Turkey, which claims it was looted during an archaeological dig in the 1960s and wants it back.
After decades in the United States as part of a private collection that loaned it to New York’s Metropolitan Museum, a statue of the Roman emperor, who lived from AD 145 to 211, was recently sent back to Turkey — minus the head.
Give us back the thing you stole from us after we stole it from its original owners.
The statue isn’t Turkish. It’s a European artifact located on territory seized by Turkey. The Danes have more of a right to it than the Turks do since at least there’s some cultural overlap. Still I can understand why they sent back the statue minus the head. Beheading things is after all rather popular in Islam.
For Turkish authorities on the other hand, the origin of the head is not in dispute, and in particular, they quote the work of the late Turkish archaeologist, Jale Inan, who took measurements of the head and body.
“The bronze comes from Bubon in Turkey. And like all objects from Turkey, we are asking for it to be returned,” said Mehmet Bulut, the Turkish charge d’affaires in Denmark.
The correct response would be that Turkey can get the head when they return the Hagia Sophia.
Also, what exactly is a country ruled by an Islamic tyrant supposed to do with a nude male statue anyway? How long is it going to survive in an Islamist hellhole whose leaders have links to the Islamist vandals who wrecked priceless artifacts in Syria? Perhaps the Danes can trade a few boxes of Korans for some art.
Or maybe someone can make a Mohammed head out of mashed potatoes and grease. Surely they’d negotiate for that.
somehistory says
They fully expect it back.
after all, they have their big ugly barracks on the Mount in Israel. they murdered and looted and stole the land from others, and have their symbol of conquest …where others are not allowed to go.
and since they have all but the head….they fully expect it back. did they slice the neck of the statue in the first place? As mozlums have sliced off the heads of numerous statues of Mary and Jesus; did they do that to this Roman?
somehistory says
Furthermore, aren’t things that depict people forbidden in their evil book of demon filth?
If they get it “back,” will they destroy it, as they like to destroy things?
the Danes can say, “no,” and stick to that. Will they?
John Smith says
Exactly Somehistory, It’s jahiliyyah therefore it should be destroyed.
If it should go anywhere it should go to it’s rightful owners the Italians.
somehistory says
thank you, John for the confirmation.
DHZ says
We stole it first!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So why did the New York museum send Turkey the statue of Septimius Severus – w/ or w/o the head? It’s not like Turkey prides its jahiliya heritage: it’s pretty obvious that they pride Turkic heritage starting mainly from the time that their Central Asiatic ancestors islamized. (Although there are those Turks who claim that they cherish their non-muslim Turkic successes as well, such as the Khazars)
somehistory says
I wondered why. Theft, threats, or a mozlum operative at the museum?
Michael Copeland says
The museum did not own the statue:
it was on loan from a private collection.
Maybe the owner sold it to Turkey.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It would be like ‘returning’ Pakistan an artifact of either Alexander or Porus/Paurava from the battle that they fought on what’s today Paki territory. Never mind that one was Macedonian and the other Indian, and that Pakistan considers its founding to be the Arab invasion of Sind and the Ghaznavid invasion of Northern India, & everything before all that jahaliya, or the pre-islamic era of ignorance
somehistory says
OT
This is insane…as insane as what turkey is demanding.
“Transabled woman blinded herself at 21 – “I should have been blind from birth””
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