The "original sin" of restitution: the Fagan Fragment
The latest journalistic reports about the Greek manoeuvres to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Ahens put more and more emphasis on ways to work arou…
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The "original sin" of restitution: the Fagan Fragment
The latest journalistic reports about the Greek manoeuvres to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Ahens put more and more emphasis on ways to work around the unbreakable Gordian knot of a loan of the Marbles to the Acropolis Museum. The Greeks consider any loan proposal unacceptable, and the British cannot get the Marbles out of the British Museum in any other way than a loan. One of the most inventive solutions, and the one that has the most high-ranking followers in the Greek ministry, is the "deposit" agreement pioneered with the Fagan Fragment once proudly displayed in the Archaeological Museum A. Salinas of Palermo (Sicily) and now in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. But what is the Fagam Fragment? The Fagan Fragment is a small portion of Slab VI of the ionic frieze of the Parthenon, measuring just 0.35m by 0.31m and 0.10m thick, which takes its name from British Consul to Sicily, painter, and antiquarian Rober Fagan, who owned it until his death in 1816. Though ...
