A STATUE OF 'INESTIMABLE' VALUE MUST BE RETURNED TO ITALY A court near Naples has asked a US museum to return of copy of a canonical Greek statue of ideal male proportions, the Doriphoros (lance bearer) of famed sculptor Polykleitos. Bought for a reported two and a half million dollars in 1984 was stolen from the ancient city of Stabiae by an international art trafficker. An Italian Court Demands the Restitution of an Ancient Roman Lance Bearer From the Minneapolis Institute of Art | Artnet
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