re: #228 mmmirele

Y’all might have missed this.

The related, closely-held enterprises known as the Green Family, Hobby Lobby and the Museum of the Bible are back in court. In the amusingly named “United States v. One Cuneiform Tablet Known As the ‘Gilgamesh Dream Tablet,’” the US government is suing for the forfeiture of a 6 inch by 5 inch clay tablet. This is not any old tablet, though. It’s a literary tablet with part of the Epic of Gilgamesh on it. The Green Family/Hobby Lobby/Museum of the Bible bought this tablet from looters for a cool $1,674,000.00 several years back. It was seized by the government from the museum in September 2019. Ultimately, it will be repatriated back to Iraq under a number of treaties to which the US is signatory.

I did miss it: late to my morning perusal of LGF. I really like it that that DoJ form says “Exhibit A - Image of the Defendant”. Can we call him “Gil” for short….??

So did nobody at the Museum Of The Bible ever check their “charter”, i.e. the “Thou shalt not steal” bit??