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In 1997, a federal judge ruled that Mr. Steinhardt had illegally imported a golden bowl, known as a phiale, from Italy in 1992.

Sicilian officials now say that two star attractions — a dramatic six-foot-tall statue of a charioteer and an immaculate gold libation bowl, or phiale — should not travel to Cleveland because their absence is depriving Sicily of tourist dollars.

Getty officials said they are pursuing the matter through diplomatic channels with the Italian government but that it would be up to Cleveland to determine if it still wants to host the exhibition without the charioteer and the phiale.

Those negotiations stalled, both sides agree, over terms requested this year by Antonino Zichichi, Ms. Sgarlata’s predecessor, who sought the museum’s help in promoting contemporary Sicilian art and asked them not to send the charioteer and the phiale to Cleveland.

It was on the phiale or fountain of the outer court of this narthex that the famous palindromic inscription was placed: .