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The Police Recover for the Archaeological Museum Two Sculptures of...

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The National Police has recovered and deposited in the National Archaeological Museum two sculptural groups...

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The American collector who bought them for several million euros at an auction in 2012 has agreed to donate them free of charge to the National Archaeological Museum

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The National Police has recovered and deposited in the National Archaeological Museum two sculptural groups...

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This article was originally published in Noticias para Municipios. The National Police has recovered and deposited in the National Archaeological Museum two bronze sculptural groups of the Roman era, dated between the first and second century AD, which were plundered from a site in southern Spain between 2007 and 2008 and auctioned in 2012 for several million euros, after being bleached their origin and their illegal provenance. The bronze sculp…

The pieces, dated between the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D., were given free of charge by an American collector after a police investigation.

The National Police has recovered two bronze sculptural groups dating from the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. that left the country illegally. The pieces of Roman and notable period... The entry Returned to Madrid two sculptures of 2,000 years ago, which were expoliated in 2007 was first published in Gazetín Madrid.

The National Police has recovered two bronze sculptural groups from Roman times, dated between the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D., that had illegally left Spain and that have already been deposited in the National Archaeological Museum. The pieces, notable for their quality, dimensions and iconography, would have been plundered between 2007 and 2008 from a site of the

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