Ten fragments of the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon will be transferred to the Acropolis Museum from the warehouse of the National Archaeological Museum, where they have been kept until now.
The fragments include parts of human figures from the eastern and southern frieze of the Parthenon and its northern metopes and parts of a head from the northern frieze.
One of the fragments was reportedly recently featured at the National Archaeological Museum in the exhibition to mark 200 years from the Greek Revolution 1821. The fragment from the north frieze is part of the head of a young figure.
The fragments were documented by the late archaeologist and researcher of ancient Greek sculpture and architecture Giorgos Despinis, and will soon find their place among the exhibits at the Acropolis Museum.
According to daily kathimerini, the Acropolis Museum seems to have gradually started “collecting” small and bigger parts of the Parthenon frieze that have been in museums across the country. The reason is not only that all pieces must return “home” and their natural environment, thinking that at the end the only pieces that will be missing in the Parthenon puzzle will be those still in the British Museum.
Τhe Central Archaeological Council (KAS) has approved the transfer and exhibition of the ten fragments.
*thumbnail: archive Acropolis Museum
