Elgin Marbles

Soli maŋa zaŋ kpa Athens yihibu

Yuuni 1816 February, House of Commons nim’ kpɛma yaɣili daa ʒia ninsala wuhibu ni di niŋ vihigu Elgin ni daa deei maasim ŋɔ shɛm ni di yi niŋ ka gomnanti tali daa dee li bee ka bi dee li.O ni daa ti o nangbankpeeni n-ti kpɛma yaɣili maa,Elgin daa yɛliya ni o niriba ni daa tumdi tuma shɛŋa Acropolis ni, ni maasim ŋɔ ni daa yɛn yi shɛm, di daa nyɛla bɛ ni saɣiti shɛli firman (Lala yuli ŋɔ nyɛla yuli shɛli din zaa niŋ tɔɣa puuni) ka bɛ mali li boli Ottoman zaligu ni yɛltɔɣa shɛŋa din nyɛ nasara nima ban chani ti ŋmɛri gbana ni yɛli shɛli ka di nyɛla Ottoman gomnanti tali ni daa ti shɛli July 1800 yuuni puuni, ka di daa niŋ ka voivode (ŋun su Athens tiŋgbani zuɣu) mini dizdar (military zuɣu lana zaŋti Acropolis citadel). yuuni silimin goli March 1810 dali, firman shɛli daa kpami, N doli soli shɛli din nyɛ di baayi zuɣu shipment bolli bihi Britain nim sani. Elgin daa yɛli committee maa, "Bin shɛŋa bi ni niŋ pollo ni dunia ni zaa... ni tiŋkpaŋ authorities daa zaŋ zaɣa n niŋ, zaŋ gbai Turkish government".

Maan lihimi ŋɔ nim yaha

• Pedimental sculpture
• Palermo Fragment
• Greece–United Kingdom relations
• Las Incantadas, portico taken from Thessaloniki
• Saint Demetra, sculpture taken from Eleusis

Sources

• Beard, Mary (2010). The Parthenon (2nd ed.). Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-84668-349-7.
• Herman, Alexander (2023). The Parthenon Marbles Dispute. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1509967179.
• Jenkins, Tiffany (2016). Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums ... and Why They Should Stay There. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-965759-9.
• St Clair, William (1998). Lord Elgin and the Marbles (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-288053-5.
• Titi, Catharine (2023). The Parthenon Marbles and International Law. Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-26356-9.
• (7 January 2009) "Lord Elgin's firman". Journal of the History of Collections 21 (1): 49–76. DOI:10.1093/jhc/fhn033.

Karimbu nim yaha

• Fehlmann, Marc (June 2007). "Casts and Connoisseurs: the early reception of the Elgin Marbles". Apollo. pp. 44–51. Archived from the original on 6 May 2012.
• Greenfield, Jeanette (2007). The Return of Cultural Treasures (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-80216-1.
• Hitchens, Christopher (1987). Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-8090-4189-3. (with essays by Robert Browning and Graham Binns)
• Jenkins, Ian (1994). The Parthenon Frieze. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0-7141-2200-7.
• King, Dorothy (2006). The Elgin Marbles. London: Hutchinson Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-09-180013-0.
• Queyrel, François (2008). Le Parthénon, Un monument dans l'Histoire. Paris: Éditions Bartillat. ISBN 978-2-84100-435-5. Archived from the original on 29 September 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
• Stallings, A. E. (2025). Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books. ISBN 9781589882003.

External links

• Acropolis Museum
• The Parthenon Frieze
• The British Museum Parthenon pages

Pros and cons of restitution

• British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles' site
• The Parthenon Project
• "The Case for Lord Elgin," Classics for All
• Gillen Wood, "The strange case of Lord Elgin's nose": the cultural context of the early 19th century debate over the marbles, the politics & the aesthetics, imperialism and hellenism
• Two memorandums submitted to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport in 2000.
• "Keeping our share", Aothen Magazine: Argues for the dismissal of the Greek claim, and for retaining the Marbles as part of cultural history.