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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-09-24
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[01] 'Nostoi' opens at new Acropolis Museum
[01] 'Nostoi' opens at new Acropolis Museum
Hellenic Republic President Karolos Papoulias and his visiting Italian
counterpart Giorgio Napolitano on Wednesday officially inaugurated the
"Nostoi" exhibition at the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. They then
attended the placement of a Parthenon fragment returned to Greece from
Italy in the form of long-term loan in its right position in the
surviving segments of the frieze on display in Athens. The 0.35mx0.34m
fragment (depicting part of the dress and right foot of ancient Greek
goddess Artemis) was donated to Italy in 1816 by Lord Elgin and comes
from Salinas Regional Museum of Archeology in Palermo, Sicily.
Speaking during the special ceremony, President Papoulias thanked his
Italian counterpart for the "highly significant gesture" and expressed
hope that the return of the Parthenon fragment "will signal the start
of a healing process to the injury done to this monument by the removal
of the Parthenon Marbles." "Greece and Italy believe that the return of
looted antiquities to their place of origin is possible, no matter how
difficult," President Papoulias stressed. The "Nostoi" Exhibition
(meaning homecoming in Greek) will be open for the public for three
months, featuring 74 repatriated antiquities that are mostly the
products of illicit excavations that had until recently been in museums
in the United States. Caption: A fragment of the Parthenon's sculpted
frieze, originally removed from the Athens Acropolis by Lord Elgin and
donated to Italy in 1816, was presented to reporters at the new
Acropolis Museum on Wednesday, shortly before it was placed in its
rightful position in the sections of the frieze that still survive and
are on display in Athens. (ANA-MPA/ Constantina Lambropoulou)
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