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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 7990572, member: 128351&quot;]Will the Horses of Saint Mark be returned to their rightful owner?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386546[/ATTACH] </p><p>These four gilded bronze horses were part of a monumental Greek bronze quadriga made in the classical or early Hellenistic period. According to an ancient source they were in the island of Chios. In the 5th c. the early Byzantine emperor Theodosius II had them removed and placed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople. They were looted in 1204 by the Venetians who placed them on the St Mark Basilica in Venice. They were looted in 1797 by the French who placed them some years later on the Carrousel triumphal arch in Paris. They were returned to Venice in 1815 and have not left Italy until now. But are the Italians their rightful owners? The had looted these horses, too... Should they return them to Turkey because these horses were taken from Constantinople which is now Istanbul, or to Greece because they were taken from Chios in the first place?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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