Morgantina Antiquities Set for Return and Display

The agreement between North American museums and Italy have included three lots of material associated with Morgantina:

• The Morgantina silver hoard (from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• The acrolithic Aphrodite (from the J. Paul Getty Museum)
• The acrolithic sculptures (formerly on loan to the University of Virginia Art Museum in Charlottesville)
  

The names of Robin Symes and Robert Hecht have been linked with parts of this batch. 

Together this group of objects represents some $22 million worth of acquisitions.


The Italian press is now reporting on the planned reception of the pieces and the expected display in Sicily ("La Venere di Morgantina torna in Sicilia", ANSA January 27, 2010).