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One loan arrangement, built around the Bayeux embroidery, has handed politicians a tested model for one of the cultural world's most entrenched disputes.
Burnham has an opening: a legislative carve-out that would remove the statutory barrier blocking the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.
Why the loan model works here The Bayeux embroidery loan established that a formal agreement between nations and institutions can move significant cultural artefacts without requiring permanent ownership transfer.
Advocates for the Parthenon Marbles claim now point to that arrangement as the template. The structure is already proven; the gap is legal access to it. A loan agreement holds a specific advantage in contested cases.
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