US museum repatriates 44 antiquities to Egypt, Italy and Turkey

Five of the repatriated works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts including, from left to right: Gnathian Askos (Wine Flask), around 330 BC, attributed to the Rose Painter, South Italian (Gnathia); Etruscan, Statuette of a Warrior, 5th Century BC; Figure of a Soldier Mime Riding a Rooster from a Funerary Set, 3rd century BC, South Italian; Vessel in the form of the God Bes (Cosmetic Container), 650-550 BC, Egyptian, Dynasty 26, Late Period; Red-Figure Lekythos, 4th century BC, attributed to the Underworld Painter (Greek, South Italian, Apulia) Credit: Photo by David Stover © 2016 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Photo by Travis Fullerton © 2014 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Photo by David Stover © 2017 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Photo by Katherine Wetzel © 2010 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Photo by Travis Fullerton © 2016 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts