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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Acropolis marble taken by soldier is returned


ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece welcomed back on Tuesday a marble fragment from a frieze decorating the Parthenon temple which an Austrian soldier removed during World War Two, but renewed a call for all its stolen treasures to be returned.An inscription on the fragment, measuring 7-by-30 cm (2.8 by 12 inches), says it was taken from the Acropolis in Athens on February 16, 1943 -- in the midst of the three-year occupation of Greece by the Axis powers, led by Germany.Martha Dahlgren inherited the piece -- broken from the frieze adorning the Parthenon's inner colonnade -- from her grandfather and decided to return it to Greece.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081202/od_nm/us_marble

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