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Achaemenid Tablets will be Repatriated Sooner or Later: Official
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26 December 2006 |
LONDON, (CAIS) -- The director of the Judicial Office of Iran’s Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organisation (ICHTO) said that it is unclear when the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute will return the ancient Iranian tablets in its possession
“We
can not say exactly when the tablets will be returned. Maybe very soon or maybe
it will take up to ten years,” Omid Ghanami told the Mehr News Agency on
Tuesday.
However,
he added, “The documents are all in favour of Iran, and we are sure that the
ruling will be overturned by the court and the tablets will be returned to the
country.”
Last
spring, U.S. District Court Judge Blanche Manning ruled that a group of people
injured by a 1997 bombing in Israel could seize the 300 clay tablets loaned to
the University of Chicago and the university cannot protect Iran's ownership
rights to the artifacts.
Following
Iranian officials’ protests against the ruling, the court was slated to re-examine
the case on December 21, but the court session was postponed to January 19,
allegedly due to the fact that Iran had not provided all the documents necessary
to the court.
The
tablets were discovered by the University of Chicago archaeologists in 1933
while they were excavating in Persepolis, the site of a major Oriental Institute
excavation.
The
artifacts
bear cuneiform script explaining administrative details of the Achaemenid
dynastic Empire from about 500 BCE. They are among a group of tens of thousands
of tablets and tablet fragments that were loaned to the University’s Oriental
Institute in 1937 to be studied. A group of 179 complete tablets was returned in
1948, and another group of more than 37,000 tablet fragments was returned in
1951.
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