Archaeological artifact confiscated by Australian authorities returned to Italy

(ANSA) - ROMA, 29 GIU - During a ceremony at the Italian Embassy in Canberra, the Honorable Susan Templeman, the Australian Government’s Special Envoy for the Arts, returned to the Italian Government—by handing it over to Nicola Lener, the Italian Ambassador to Australia—a bell-shaped krater of Apulian-Greek origin, dating from 340–325 B.C. The artifact, which originated in the United States and was bound for New Zealand, had been intercepted in Sydney in 2020 by Australian authorities, who h...

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