All people of good will welcome the installation of a new Head Coach at the Getty.
Meanwhile, the controversy over who really owns the looted art treasures rages on. The Getty has pledged to return a couple more to Greece and generously offered to return a bunch to Italy, while it maintains its claims to others, having examined the cases impartially and concluded that yes, it does own them.
Most prominent in that category is the case of an art treasure found on a Roman ship in international waters. Let's assume those waters were off the coast of Italy, and not off the coast of say, Catalina.
Here are three scenarios for how the treasure got there.
A) The ship was on an Art Treasures of the Roman Empire Cruise. (122 Fun-Filled Days, 121 Drunken Nights, Calls at All the Conquered Cities of the Mediterranean! Your host: Epidermis of Rome, the Famous Artist. Epidermis will welcome you aboard The Plunderer, where he will not only be your guide and drinking buddy, he will create an Art Treasure while you are sailing the seas!)
Therefore, when The Plunderer was unfortunately lost during a night of stormy drinking (the sea itself was calm,) Epidermis had already created the Art Treasure, and it was therefore a Roman Treasure. Never mind that Epidermis was, technically a Greek slave. He lived in Rome, so he was a Roman. Let's assign a degree of likelihood to possibility A): Not Very.
B) The Plunderer was actually on a Good Will Tour of the Conquered Cities of the Roman Empire, and it was bearing the Art Treasure found centuries later as a gift from the people of Rome to maybe the people of Alexandria. Unfortunately, the made in Rome stamp was worn off by the ravages of being under water for so long. Degree of likelihood of possibility B): Modest.
C) The Plunderer was actually returning from one of the cities on the Good Will Tour, but the good will on this tour was extended from the conquered cities towards Rome rather than the other way around, and included the Art Treasure. Degree of likelihood of possibility C): Reasonable.
One idea for the New Head Coach over at the Getty: shift the debate from the murky "international waters" claim, which is questionable for both sides, over to the "we're better at preserving these things than they are." Degree of likelihood of that being a better argument: Decent.