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Naranjo Stela 30
Stolen Maya sculpture seized by US Authorities when a crate carrying it broke open in the port of Houston Naranjo is a Maya site located near Guatemala’s border with Belize. It is 18 km north of the town of Melchor de Mencos via a logging road built in the 1950s (Peabody Museum n.d.). Naranjo was discovered in 1905 by Teobert Maler, who recorded 32 stela at the site, including Naranjo Stela 30 (Maler 1908). The front of the stela depicts a standing male figure holding a staff with inscriptions around him. The back of the stela displays a lengthy inscription....
Naranjo Stela 8
Maya sculpture trafficked to the USA, bought by a department store magnate, and physically returned to Guatemala in 2015. Naranjo is a Maya site located near Guatemala’s border with Belize. It is 18 km north of the town of Melchor de Mencos via a logging road built in the 1950s (Peabody Museum n.d.). Naranjo was discovered in 1905 by Teobert Maler, who recorded 32 stela at the site, including Stela 8 (Maler 1908). The 1.87 meter tall stela 8 was the “easternmost of three stelae on the south side of Structure B-4” (Peabody Museum, n.d.). The front of Stela 8...
Nimrud Earrings
In 2010 Christie’s New York returned a pair of Neo-Assyrian gold earrings to Iraq.
Nok Terracottas
Terracotta figurative sculpture found on the Bauchi plateau of Nigeria. Heavily looted from the 1970s onwards.
November Collection of Maya Pottery
A spectacular collection of Classic Maya pottery thought to have been systematically looted from Guatemalan sites throughout the 1980s now in the possession of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.