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Since 1984, the Greek government has asked the British Museum to return the 12 statues and 15 metopes representing more than half of the sculpted decoration of the Parthenon, and 75 meters of the interior frieze of the temple.
In October 2021, Unesco urges the English museum to return the works to it.
Sicily has decided to take the lead, following an agreement negotiated for 10 years with the Greek government.
On January 7, she sent to Athens the only part of the Parthenon that she held: the fragment of the frieze representing the foot of a goddess - of Peitho or perhaps even of Artemis seated on a throne -, s' escaping from the drape of her dress.
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The element, which was part of the frieze dismantled in 1802 at the request of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Thomas Bruce, was offered by the latter to the British consul in Sicily, Robert Fagan, in 1816 After his death, his widow sold it in 1820 to the Royal University of Palermo, which would become the Archaeological Museum ...
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