On the morning of March 18, at the National Roman Museum in the Baths of Diocletian, the Carabinieri from the Castel Gandolfo Station, together with the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC), handed over to the museum’s director, Prof. Stéphane Verger, a series of archaeological finds of inestimable value dating back to the early Roman Imperial period.
The collection includes a marble male torso recognized as a copy of the Eros of Thespiae with bow, based on a bronze original by the great Greek sculptor Lysippos (4th century BCE), two fragments of a draped male torso, fragments of decorated marble slabs, pieces of marble cladding, portions of a statue base, and a tip of a transport amphora.
These fragments were discovered in 2021 by the Carabinieri in Castel Gandolfo, Via dei Pescatori, during the clearing of a residential property. With the collaboration of the Rome branch of the Carabinieri TPC and the Superintendence for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of the Rome metropolitan area, the recovered artifacts were cataloged and seized. Following judicial proceedings at the Tribunal of Velletri, the items were confiscated and subsequently assigned to the National Roman Museum for custody and preservation.