Rare Ancient Egyptian Artefacts Repatriated From Italy’s Turin Museum

Bassam Radi, the Egyptian ambassador in Rome, announced that the embassy managed to repatriate four rare ancient Egyptian artefacts from the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, which holds the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside the country.

The repatriated rare artefacts include a pharaonic painting decorated with hieroglyphic inscriptions, a small pottery vessel and a pottery statue of a woman (both of which date back to the Greco-Roman era), and a piece called the ‘Jed Ankh Column’ from the New Kingdom.

The packaging process of the retrieved artefacts was carried out by an Italian specialist, and was supervised by the Egyptian ambassador at the embassy headquarters in Rome.