Section 5: Elgin’s Bribery and Corruption
Bribery and Corruption of public officials and priests facilitated Elgin’s theft of grave markers and other sacrilegious acts. The “Report From The Select Committee on The Earl of Elgin’s Collection of Sculptured Marbles &c.” contains various contradictory sets of accounts from Elgin purporting to be his expenses for excavating and transporting the hundreds, even thousands…
