Monday 6 August 2012

Eagerly waiting for bailout



The Independent Movement for the Repatriation of Looted Greek Antiquities [website] has produced a video about the return of the Caryatid removed from the Erechtheion on the Athenian acropolis.

I went to see the London Caryatid last month, tucked away behind the Lydian monuments in a cul de sac created by the closure of the Halikarnassos gallery.

Is it time for this architectural sculpture to be reunited with the other elements of the building?

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