Getty Museum buys an ‘Elgin marble’ – but not a Greek one

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angles has acquired an early first-century marble bust of the Roman general Germanicus, the adopted son of the Emperor Tiberius and father of Caligula.

The bust was part of the collection of the Earls of Elgin and Kincardine for many years and having b…

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