An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.
The bronze head of the griffin, repatriated from New York, returned to Ancient Olympia on Friday afternoon and will be ...
The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons, used to honor the gods, with the head of a griffin, whose visage is that of an eagle but whose body is that of a lion. On its website ...
An ancient bronze griffin's head returns today to the same museum in ancient Olympia from where it was stolen in the 1930s.
The cast-bronze head of a griffin was bequeathed to the Met in ... where she also received a lekythos, a type of ancient Greek vessel, from the Glencairn Museum in Pennsylvania during an official ...
The griffin head wasn’t the only artifact that Mendoni received during her trip. During an event at the Greek embassy, she was also given a lekythos, an ancient Greek flask, that had been housed ...
Following its repatriation, the griffin will return to the Met next ... In 2022, Stern gifted his collection of ancient Cycladic art to Greece, and under the terms of a 25-year agreement a ...
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in ...