Word: morgantina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1988 the Getty has been embroiled in a dispute over a 7-ft.-tall marble beauty: a magnificent early 5th century B.C. Greek statue of a goddess, perhaps Aphrodite. Italy claims it was furtively unearthed in 1979 from the archaeological dig at Morgantina, Sicily. Some experts doubt that Morgantina, a onetime Greek colony, was the specific origin, but Italy is convinced the statue came from somewhere under its soil...
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