The Museo dell’Arte Salvata, housed in the Octagonal Hall of the Baths of Diocletian, has been enriched with new archaeological finds, once again recovered through investigations carried out by the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, the most recent of which allowed the repatriation of numerous items last December.
Thanks to these operations, the public can now see, for the first time, as part of the exhibition “New Recoveries”, four Etruscan antefixes belonging to the decoration of a cult building from the 6th–5th century BCE in the Campetti di Veio area (Rome). These pieces share a common fate: stolen from the archaeological site at different times, they were circulated on the international antiquities market and ended up in very distant locations from one another.
