What price the diplomatic skills of Michael Brand, director of the Getty museum that houses one of the world's finest and largest collections of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities? This week, Mr Brand was in Rome to resume negotiations with Italy's Ministry of Culture over 52 antiquities in the Getty's collection that the ministry believes to be stolen loot. This estimate may be conservative: a day earlier, the Los Angeles Times disclosed that, according to an internal review last year by the J. Paul Getty Trust, the museum has 350 antiquities of dubious provenance.
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机译：盖蒂博物馆馆长迈克尔·布兰德（Michael Brand）拥有世界上最好，最大的希腊，罗马和伊特鲁里亚古物收藏之一的外交技巧，价格是多少？本周，布兰德先生在罗马恢复与意大利文化部就盖蒂收藏中52种古物进行的谈判，该部认为这是赃物。这个估计可能是保守的：一天前，《洛杉矶时报》披露，根据J. Paul Getty Trust去年进行的内部审查，该博物馆有350多种可疑来源。
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