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Object Type(s): Folio, Food/Drink Container, Funerary Object, Stele, Vessel
Object Material(s): ink or dye, paper
Provenience Nation: Yemen
Provenience Location: Yemen
Year Removed from Findspot: 2008 (approximate)

Provenance
Start Year: 2023
End Year:
Circumstance of Acquisition: Secured in U.S. Smithsonian by Republic of Yemen
Nation: United States
Location: Care of Smithsonian's Nation Museum of Asian Art (possession of Yemen)
Start Year: 2012
End Year: 2023
Circumstance of Acquisition: Forfeited by respondent
Nation: United States
Location: U.S. Govt. storage facility in New York
Start Year: 2008 (approximate)
End Year: 2012
Circumstance of Acquisition: smuggled into US
Nation: United States
Location: Mousa Khouli/Windsor Galleries, New York

77 Yemeni Artifacts


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Case Status: Object(s) relinquished
Year Claim Initiated: 2012
Year Claim Resolved: 2023
Means of Resolution: Litigation

Complainant Name: Republic of Yemen
Complainant Nation: Yemen
Complainant Nation Economy: Developing
Complainant Type: Public: Government

Respondent Name: Mousa Khouli/Windsor Galleries
Respondent Nation: United States
Respondent Nation Economy: Developed
Respondent Type: Private: Individual

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Editor's Notes:
Includes 65 funerary stelae from northwest Yemen, dated to the second half of the first millennium B.C., a bronze bowl, and 11 folios from early Qurans. Artifacts will be cared for by the Smithsonian and returned when the violent conflict in Yemen subsides. Editor: Eliza Rodi.