{"id":3656,"date":"2013-04-27T22:22:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2013-04-27T22:22:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:22:45","slug":"nude-statues-pulled-from-olympic-exhibition-after-qatari-authorities-insist-on-veiling-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=3656","title":{"rendered":"Nude statues pulled from Olympic exhibition after Qatari authorities insist on veiling them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/q1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3654\" alt=\"Greek statue.\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/q1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/q1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/q1-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/q1-363x300.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Greece has pulled two ancient statues of nude males from an Olympic exhibition in Doha after Qatari authorities insisted covering the genitalia with black cloths.<\/p>\n<p>A Culture Ministry official says exhibition organisers wanted to avoid scandalising female visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Greek Deputy Culture Minister Costas Tzavaras, who visited the Muslim country last month for the exhibition opening, objected, saying the works should be displayed as they were or shipped home.<\/p>\n<p>The statues have already returned to Greece,&#8217; a Culture Ministry source told Agence-France-Presse, who added that, &#8216;Organizers in Qatar wanted to cover up the statues\u2019 members with black cloth. So they were never put on display, they went back into storage and returned on April 19.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Qatari officials could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The statues date to the 6th and 2nd centuries BC.<\/p>\n<p>They were among nearly 600 antiquities brought from Greece for the &#8216;Olympics &#8211; Past and Present&#8217; exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece has pulled two ancient statues of nude males from an Olympic exhibition in Doha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,221,224,155,137],"tags":[550],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-qatari","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}