How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago
By
Ateet Sharma ( IANS) |
Published on
Thu, Mar 11 2021 12:42 IST |
0 Views
How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi , March 11, Thirty-seven years after it was stolen and subsequently landed in the US, a stone stele of Lakshmi-Narayan, depicting the Hindu deities of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi, is finally returning to its original home in Patan, a city located just across the Bagmati river from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
Last week, Yuba Raj Khatiwada, the Ambassador of Nepal in Washington, received the statue of Vasudeva-Kamalaja (also known as Lakshmi-Narayan) handed over from the representative of the US Government Timothy Dunham, Deputy Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in a ceremony organized at the Nepalese embassy.
How FBI and Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago
dtnext.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dtnext.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago
daijiworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from daijiworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The eight-armed Stele of Lakshmi-Narayana from around the 10th or 11th century, depicting two Hindu deities in an amalgam Courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art
A 10th- or 11th-century stele that disappeared from a Hindu shrine in Nepal in 1984 and was later lent by an American collector to the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is being turned over to the Nepalese Embassy in Washington, DC for repatriation.
The stele, carved in grey stone, depicts two Hindu deities, Vishnu and his consort, Lakshmi, as a composite. It had been on loan to the Dallas museum since 1990, soon after it was auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York.