The combined US-Italian study confirmed pirated software terracotta head of the god Hades (Hades) from the collection of the Getty. Sculpture 400-300 years. BC. e. will be returned to Sicily, to the archaeological park Morgantini

head god Hades (Hades)
Terracotta, polychrome. 400-300 years. BC
Morgantini, Sicily
Source: artdaily.com

Getty Museum again found in their bins artifact of dubious origin. Terracotta head of the god Hades (Hades) 400-300 years. BC. e. bought Getty in 1985, as it turned out, was removed from Italy illegally. Los Angeles Museum decided to voluntarily return the statue to Sicily, to the archaeological park Morgantini.

on finding the true provenance of the exhibit took two years of joint US-Italian studies. Were found correspondence between the head of Hades and the other four terracotta fragments in a similar style. These artifacts helped to establish the place where archaeologists dug black head Hades - a sanctuary of Demeter in the current archaeological reserve near the town of Aidone Morgantini. The sanctuary was looted black archeologists in the late 1970s. The body of the statue of Hades is now under restoration at the Archaeological Museum of Aidone, head of the god on his return to Sicily sculpture integrity will be restored. But before returning to Sicily, head Aida poputeshestvuet under temporary exhibition "Sicily: the art and the invention between Greece and Rome" on the route Los Angeles - Cleveland - Palermo (from April 2013 to June 2014).

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources : artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru