The object had been chopped into 16 pieces.
The 2,000-year-old artwork arrived in Rome from Los Angeles in April, as much as a century after it left the country.
“The mosaic was handcrafted from an age where people put an amazing amount of care and effort into it. It really speaks to the ingenuity and creativity of the time,” FBI special agent Allen Grove said in aThe work had been quietly stored in and L.A. warehouse since the 1980s, chopped up into 16 pieces, each weighing 75 to 200 pounds.
In 2020, an art attorney reached out to FBI Art Crime Team special agent Elizabeth Rivas about the piece on behalf of an anonymous client. A piece of an ancient Roman mosaic, in storage for decades, was found and returned to Italy, where it will be restored and displayed for the public. Photo courtesy of the FBI.
“We were very happy they contacted us,” she said. “If they hadn’t, it could’ve been in storage for another hundred years. It’s a successful example of how we can work together to get pieces back to where they belong.”
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