After sixty years, a statuette brought home by a child returns to Paestum

Sixty years ago, in 1958, Bob Martin, then a child, brought home a souvenir from the Paestum Archaeological Park: he was convinced it was a bone of a Roman legionnaire.

It was only after all these years that the U.S. citizen returned to Paestum and returned what he had taken with him: an ivory statuette that, from a preliminary analysis by the director of the Paestum Archaeological Park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, seems to depict the god Dionysus with a cornucopia, the symbol of abundance.

Martin was welcomed by Zuchtriegel himself: now the statuette will be cleaned and studied by the Park’s archaeologists so that it can eventually be displayed in the Paestum Museum.

Source: Ansa

After sixty years, a statuette brought home by a child returns to Paestum

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