NY court says gold tablet belongs to German museum

New York's highest court says an ancient gold tablet is not a spoil of war and must be returned to the German museum that lost it in World War II.
The court todasy said that the heirs of the Holocaust survivor who obtained the Assyrian relic are not entitled to a "looted cultural object."
The 9.5-gram tablet, nearly the size of a credit card, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what's now northern Iraq. It went on display in 1934 and disappeared after the start of the war.
Concentration camp survivor Riven Flamenbaum brought the tablet to the United States when he settled in New York. Family lore says he got it by trading cigarettes to a Russian soldier.