Italian Police Nab Suspects in an Antiquities Smuggling Ring After a Years-Long Investigation Code-Named ‘Operation Demetra’

An article in artnet News published in July 5, 2018, details the results of a four-year investigation by Italian carabinieri known as “Operation Demetra,” during which dozens of Greek figurative terracottas and scores of Greek vases, among other artifacts, were recovered from sites in western Sicily...

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Main Author: Eileen Kinsella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ACoSt - Association for Coroplastic Studies 2018-10-01
Series:Les Carnets de l’ACoSt
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acost/1430
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Italian Police Nab Suspects in an Antiquities Smuggling Ring After a Years-Long Investigation Code-Named ‘Operation Demetra’
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Looted antiquities
plundered antiquities
Operation Demetra
smuggled Greek artifacts
looted terracottas
Sicilian antiquities
title Italian Police Nab Suspects in an Antiquities Smuggling Ring After a Years-Long Investigation Code-Named ‘Operation Demetra’
title_full Italian Police Nab Suspects in an Antiquities Smuggling Ring After a Years-Long Investigation Code-Named ‘Operation Demetra’
title_fullStr Italian Police Nab Suspects in an Antiquities Smuggling Ring After a Years-Long Investigation Code-Named ‘Operation Demetra’
title_full_unstemmed Italian Police Nab Suspects in an Antiquities Smuggling Ring After a Years-Long Investigation Code-Named ‘Operation Demetra’
title_short Italian Police Nab Suspects in an Antiquities Smuggling Ring After a Years-Long Investigation Code-Named ‘Operation Demetra’
title_sort italian police nab suspects in an antiquities smuggling ring after a years long investigation code named operation demetra
topic Looted antiquities
plundered antiquities
Operation Demetra
smuggled Greek artifacts
looted terracottas
Sicilian antiquities
url https://journals.openedition.org/acost/1430
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