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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 5412590, member: 75525"]The question of who owns and should own cultural property is complicated and depends on who you ask. Import restrictions from Italy are mentioned here often. I wonder if there is a movement in Italy to return items stolen by:</p><ul> <li>ELAGABALUS - the sacred stone of Emesa. (coin from acsearch, not mine)</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]1234581[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>Venice - The Four Tetrarchs were plundered by the Venetians when Constantinople was sacked during the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and brought to St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. In the 1960s, the heel part of the missing foot was discovered by archaeologists in Istanbul close to the Bodrum Mosque. This part is in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. from wikipedia</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]1234582[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1234583[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 5412590, member: 75525"]The question of who owns and should own cultural property is complicated and depends on who you ask. Import restrictions from Italy are mentioned here often. I wonder if there is a movement in Italy to return items stolen by: [LIST] [*]ELAGABALUS - the sacred stone of Emesa. (coin from acsearch, not mine) [/LIST] [ATTACH=full]1234581[/ATTACH] [LIST] [*]Venice - The Four Tetrarchs were plundered by the Venetians when Constantinople was sacked during the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and brought to St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. In the 1960s, the heel part of the missing foot was discovered by archaeologists in Istanbul close to the Bodrum Mosque. This part is in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. from wikipedia [/LIST] [ATTACH=full]1234582[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1234583[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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