Greece Backs Off Getty-Related Case Against Marion True

Coinciding with the Getty Museum's publication of the above book comes another "Great Moment in Greek Archaeology"---the dismissal in Greek court of the Getty-related charges against the museum's former antiquities curator, Marion True. Now that the Getty has returned the objects that Greece has sought, the judges have discovered that the statute of limitations has run. Did this expiration just happen?

There are still non-Getty related Greek charges outstanding against True. The Associated Press reports:

True still faces charges of illegally possessing at least a dozen antiquities found during a police raid on her holiday home on the Aegean island of Paros in April last year. No trial date has been set in that case.

It remains to be seen whether Italian prosecutors will now also lay off of True, as they indicated they would, two months ago, after the signing of an antiquities agreement between Italy and the Getty.

Perhaps they're still waiting for resolution of that little dispute over the Getty Bronze.