A private archaeological collection made up of 86 finds, including ancient amphorae from Sardinia, and dated between the 9th and 3rd centuries BC, was confiscated and returned by the Carabinieri of the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit of Turin.

These are ceramics, Apulian vases and amphorae from various Italian regions, in particular, in addition to the island and from Tuscany.

The recovery had taken place in November 2019, when the heirs of a wealthy family of foreign origins, however residing in Turin, found the artifacts during a succession.

The family members, opening the packages in which the ceramics were wrapped, realized that those archaeological assets had to be reported to the superintendence and the carabinieri. The autopsy examinations on the finds, devoid of any authorization document, then made it possible to verify that the collection, extremely heterogeneous in relation to the geographical origin of the goods, had been created in the 1950s and 1960s through the purchase of objects on the antiques market Italian and abroad.

"The investigative investigations revealed that this collection was illegal," explains Lieutenant Colonel Silvio Mele. "Hence the hypothesis of a crime formulated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Piedmontese capital of an illicit derivation resulting from a clandestine excavation".

(Unioneonline/lf)

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