France returns marble fragment of the Erechtheion to Greece

A marble fragment from the Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis will be voluntarily returned to Greece in Lyon by the Rhone Prefecture on Thursday.

The architectural fragment, dated to the 5th century BC, comes from the upper architectural part of the Erechtheion (Temple of Athena Polias), the Ministry of Culture said. It is decorated with sculptural ornament in the form of eggs and leaves.

The fragment was handed over to the prefecture by French citizen Jacqueline Junel, who has owned it since the 1970s. She said that the fragment was removed(?) from the Acropolis in the 1930s. It will be presented to the Greek Ambassador Dimitrios Zevelakis.

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