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سويسرا تُسلّم إلى ليبيا تمثالاً رخاميّاً يُشتبه بأنه مسروق
The sculpture is 19 centimetres high and dates from between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. The object probably comes from the archaeological site of the ancient city of Cyrene in present-day Libya, the federal Office of Culture announced on Tuesday.
+ Switzerland returns stolen artefacts to Italy
The cultural artefact was found during a customs inspection in a customs warehouse in Geneva in 2013, it added. The object was confiscated during criminal proceedings in 2016 on suspicion that it had come from a looted excavation.
According to the press release, it is a violation of the Federal Act on the International Transfer of Cultural Property to import stolen or looted cultural property into Switzerland or store it in a customs warehouse.
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