He is a very good, evolution full of symbolismin an international situation that is favorable to all home of the ancients. Two marble Attic funerary vases, one lekythos and one bath attendant in the 4th century BC, they returned to Athena from bEhinD after the happy result of their multi-year claim to the Greek State. the marble lykyths and bathers appear from the late 5th and throughout the 4th century BC. in ancient Attic cemeteries as grave markers in family tombs. And they are products exclusive to Attic marble carving workshops.
Upon completion of the repatriation process, the Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, said: “International cooperation for the return of illegally exported cultural objects through bilateral and multilateral agreements is our main desire. Now, to return to the Attic land of two classic grave marble vessels, a long-standing claim of ours is completed. ” As for the effort to return the ancients, in October 2017 when they were found, it was an easy task: “Six requests for judicial assistance were filed in competent Athens Primary Prosecutor’s Officeafter the cooperation of the Directorate of Documentation and Protection of Cultural Assets of the Ministry of Culture, where the Greek State asked the Swiss authorities for the repatriation of the vases and also for summoning those involved to give explanations for criminal acts “, emphasized the Minister of Culture.
The homecoming of two Attic tombstones vascular reached through out-of-court negotiations, after the Greek State was fully satisfied and the people involved were paid compensation as well as monetary satisfaction due to moral damage. The two antiquities will be exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos and can be added to the series of successes of Greece in the issue of antiquities repatriation in recent years.