31 ancient objects were seized
The Greek Police, continuing their actions to protect the cultural heritage of our Country, identified and confiscated 31 ancient objects preventing meeting buying and selling antiquities owned by members of a criminal organization.
Specifically, an operation was planned and implemented by the Department of Cultural Heritage and Antiquities of the Attica Security Directorate, in the morning hours of Saturday, September 16, in the surrounding area of ​​a building installation in Paleo Faliro, after a thorough investigation and utilization of relevant information.
In the context of the operational action, a group of police officers of the specific service located in the above place a number of ancient objects, which are included in the protection of the cultural heritage and constitute objects of great historical and archaeological value.
The ancient objects were taken by a team of police officers to the headquarters of the aforementioned agency and examined by an archaeologist of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and the Islands, who opined that (27) fall under the protective provisions of the Antiquities Protection Law, while four of them require further investigation.
The antiquities will be handed over for safekeeping and final assessment to the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, as well as to the Numismatic Museum of Athens. The filed case file will be submitted to the Criminal Prosecutor of Athens.
Among the ancient objects found is a gold coin-stater of Pantikapaion of Crimea, from ancient times, and specifically from the 4th BC. century with a diameter of about 17 millimeters and a weight of about 9.2 grams.
The gold coin was characterized, in its assessment by an archaeologist of the Numismatic Museum of Athens, as particularly rare because the depicted “Panas” is depicted in its obverse form and comes from the ancient city of Pantikapaion, a Greek colony on the Tauric Peninsula of the Black Sea (today’s Crimea ).
The antiquities that belong to the protective provisions of the legislation are the following:
- marble lekythos with a relief representation of a reception, with a maximum extant height of 0.83 m and a maximum diameter of 0.29 m.
- marble lekythos with a relief representation of a reception, with a maximum extant height of 0.66 m and a maximum diameter of 0.32 m.
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, archaic, with a maximum height of 0.12 m and a maximum width of 0.034 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, archaic, with a maximum height of 0.10 m and a maximum width of 0.04 m,
- clay pigeon figurine, 6th to 5th century BC, with a maximum height of 0.053 m and a maximum length of 0.07 m,
- clay figurine of a standing naked male figure, classical period, with a maximum height of 0.08 m and a maximum width of 0.038 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, Archaic, with a maximum height of 0.078 m and a maximum width of 0.027 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, archaic, with a maximum height of 0.09 m and a maximum width of 0.032 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, archaic, consisting of two contiguous parts, which bears traces of red color with a maximum height of 0.093 m and a maximum width of 0.034 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, archaic, with a maximum height of 0.067 m and a maximum width of 0.021 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, Archaic, with a maximum height of 0.084 m and a maximum width of 0.033 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, archaic, with a maximum height of 0.10 m and a maximum width of 0.035 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, Archaic, with a maximum height of 0.088 m and a maximum width of 0.034 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, archaic, with a maximum height of 0.092 m and a maximum width of 0.035 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, archaic, with a maximum height of 0.095 m and a maximum width of 0.032 m,
- clay figurine of a seated female figure, archaic, with a maximum height of 0.098 m and a maximum width of 0.037 m,
- clay figurine of a naked seated male figure, classical – Hellenistic times, which bears traces of red color, with a maximum height of 0.086 m and a maximum width of 0.061 m,
- clay figurine probably of a pig, archaic-classical times, with a maximum height of 0.055 m and a maximum length of 0.076 m,
- one (1) clay figurine possibly of a pig, Archaic-Classical times, with a maximum height of 0.042 m and a maximum length of 0.07 m,
- clay figurine probably of a pig, archaic-classical times, with a maximum height of 0.044 m and a maximum length of 0.072 m,
- clay miniature vessel, possibly a kantharus, from which the upper part is missing, with brown-black paint, Archaic, with a maximum surviving height of 0.045 m and a base diameter of 0.03 m,
- clay miniature skyphos, with brown-black paint on the inside and decoration with brown-black bands on the outside, Archaic, with a maximum height of 0.024 m, a base diameter of 0.024 m and a rim diameter of 0.04 m.
- clay miniature skyphos, with brown-black paint on the inside and decoration with brown-black bands on the outside, Archaic, with a maximum height of 0.035 meters, a base diameter of 0.026 m and a rim diameter of 0.05 m.
- clay miniature skyphos, consisting of two contiguous parts, with brown-black paint on the inside and decoration with brown-black bands on the outside, Archaic, with a maximum height of 0.024 m, a base diameter of 0.02 m and a rim diameter of 0.034 m.
- clay miniature skyphos, one handle missing, with brown-black paint on the inside and decoration with brown-black lines on the outside, Archaic, with a maximum height of 0.028 m, a base diameter of 0.018 m and a rim diameter of 0.035 m.
- clay lid of a miniature vase, from which the handle is missing, with black paint on the inside and outside, archaic-classical times, with a maximum height of 0.015 m and a diameter of 0.04 m.
In addition to the above, (4) ancient objects that need further examination were confiscated:
- marble figurine of the Cycladic type, with a maximum extant height of 0.16 m and a maximum width of 0.065 m.
- clay female figurine, Neolithic type, with a maximum height of 0.125 m and a maximum width of 0.045 m.
- bronze statuette of a warrior, with a maximum height of 0.15 m and a maximum width of 0.073 m.
- lead figurine of a female figure, in the dancer type, with a maximum extant height of 0.145 m and a maximum width of 0.07 m.
Source: Skai
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