Experts say that these objects could be extracted from the field of illegal excavations

auction Bonhams in London removed four Roman sculptures, which, as claimed specialists were obtained illegally. The evidence that these objects could be extracted from the field of illegal archaeological excavations, to provide researchers from Cambridge University Tsirogiannis Christ (Christos Tsirogiannis), formerly employed as an archaeologist at the Ministry of Culture of Greece.

Attention Community Archaeologists have attracted three funerary bust and a marble statue of a young man dating from II century Mr. Oe. Judging by the style in which these works are carried out, the busts come from the eastern Mediterranean and can be found in Syria or northern Greece, and a statue of a young man, probably came up for auction in Italy. The cost of these items was estimated at 40,000 pounds.

representative of the auction house Bonhams said: "As soon as there are serious questions about the history of existence, we will immediately remove it from the auction and hold their own investigation. We carefully take care of that we have sold only those items that have clear provenance. He also said that Bonhams always sends its catalogs to check into the organization Art Loss Register, a database that stores information about missing or stolen works of art. "If they manage to find something, we will immediately remove these items from the auction" - he said.

material prepared Ekaterina Guseva, AI

Sources: guardian.co.uk , artinvestment.ru