Long-lost library sculpture returns to L.A. But the mystery continues

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Long-lost library sculpture returns to L.A. But the mystery continues
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A section of the Well of the Scribes sculpture returns to the L.A. Central Library, 50 years after it vanished. The other two pieces are still missing.

,” Zerega decided the missing Well of the Scribes would make a good story. “I thought there was a good chance that someone has it,” Zerega said at Friday’s unveiling.“Whatever Happened to the Well of the Scribes?”The article reached Floyd Lillard, an antiques dealer in Bisbee, Ariz., who immediately recognized the sculpture. It turns out the bronze panel he’d bought for $500 from a woman years earlier was a piece of it, and it was standing in his apartment above his antique store.

The director of the Los Angeles Central Library, Kren Malone, left, watches as City Librarian John F. Szabo unveils the recovered piece of the long-lost Well of the Scribes sculpture.

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