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A looted mosaic that once decorated a ship of the Roman Emperor Caligula and ended up as a coffee table in New York City finally returned home Thursday, as...
Multi-coloured mosaic that adorned a vast pleasure barge 2,000 years ago finally returned home 11 March 2021 • 6:02pm The mosaic decorated the bridge of one of two barges that were recovered from the bottom of the lake between 1929 and 1932 Credit: Lucia LB. Bianco For centuries, it lay in the mud on the bed of a volcanic lake in Italy, before being dredged up in an operation ordered by Mussolini, and then illegally exported to the United States, where it ended up being used for decades as a coffee table in a Manhattan apartment. After a distinctly chequered history, a multi-coloured mosa...
Emperor's mosaic displayed in Italy after stint as NYC table PAOLO SANTALUCIA and NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press March 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Authorities stand around a 1.5 square meter colorful mosaic dating back to 40 A.D. and belonging to the flooring of Caligula’s lavish ceremonial ships, that was found thanks to a joint police operation in the rooms of a Manhattan house and returned to the museum of Nemi, near Rome, Thursday, March 11, 2021. In September 2017, the department for cultural heritage protection of the Italian Carabinieri police, in collaboration with New York di...