Saturday, 6 March, 2021 - 13:00
Statue head of Faustina», daughter of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius (Libyan Foreign Ministry) Cairo- Jamal Jawhar
Through continuous diplomatic efforts, Libya has retrieved a rare marble statue of the head of Faustina, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder. This comes 75 years after it was smuggled out of the country during the Second World War, and the statue dates back to the era of the Nerva- Antione dynasty.
Yesterday, the Libyan ministry of foreign affairs announced that its embassy in Austria had successfully retrieved the statue from the Garz Museum in a press conference that included ambassadors and officials from both sides. The ministry noted that the handover process had begun after diplomatic discussions between the Libyan embassy and the Austrian state, as well as the Libyan Antiquities Authority’s efforts to retrieve