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Fragments of antiquities to be restored to their original monuments in New Acropolis Museum

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Twenty-seven fragments of antiquities will be moved from the storage are of the Old Acropolis Museum to the nearby New Acropolis Museum, after the Central Archaeological Council (KAS) approved an application by the new Museum for their concession.

The New Acropolis Museum plans to integrate the 27 objects with the monuments they belong to and are on display in the Museum's galleries, as part of an ambitious ongoing project to match fragments in storage at the old museum to the monuments they originally come from.

The objects include column capitals, marble bands, roof spouts, anthemions (marble flower-patterned ornamentation) and roofing tiles from antiquities already on display in the new Museum.

Most of the fragments have retained their original colors in spots, which the Museum believes may be used to enrich knowledge as to what their use was.

Several fragments that belonged to the Parthenon will be put on display in the western section of the Museum's second storey, together with the remnants of an earlier parthenon in the Gallery of Archaic Sculpture.

Last Updated Friday, 15 February 2013
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