Stolen Vase Returned to Sicily: 'Farewell Painful, but Serves a Higher Purpose'
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The image appeared on an old reel and showed that the piece was still in Italy in 1976, although it was claimed to belong to a Swiss collection since before 1970.
Allard Pierson voluntarily returns 3rd-century B.C. Centuripe pyxis
What to do with a vase that a famous Sicilian grave robber had once unearthed? Return it, thought the Allard Pierson Museum. That only succeeded after many years. Today is the day.
dagelijksestandaard.nl
welingelichtekringen.nlAMSTERDAM (ANP) - With an elaborate ceremony, the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam returned an antique vase to Sicily on Wednesday. It is an earthenware vase with a lid from the third century BC, depicting a wedding scene. The vase, a so-called pyxis from the...
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cedarnews.netThe Allard Pierson Archaeology Museum is voluntarily returning the vase, although strictly speaking, it was not legally obliged to do so.
Algemeen Dagblad
gelderlander.nlA beautiful antique vase, which has been on display at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam since 1997, will be returned to the Italian island of Sicily on Wednesday. Research shows that the centuries-old vase was likely stolen from a tomb by local tombkeepers and subsequently resold. An old photographic negative serves as proof of this.
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