A New York federal court has ordered US craft store Hobby Lobby to forfeit an ancient artefact purchased at a 2014 auction that "originated in the area of modern-day Iraq and entered the United States contrary to federal law," the Justice Department announced Tuesday.The artefact - known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet - is inscribed with a portion of "Gilgamesh," an epic poem considered one of the world's oldest works of literature.In 2014, Hobby Lobby, a privately owned arts and crafts retailer whose president is also the chairman of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, bought the clay tablet for display in the museum from an international auction house for $2,268,000.
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