A fragment from an ancient column in the Leonidaion at Ancient Olympia that had been illegally removed in the 1960s was returned to Greece in a repatriation ceremony as a woman from Münster, Germany, returned the fragment more than 50 years after it was removed.
The National Herald writes:
This is a fragment of an Ionic column, made of limestone, which preserves some plaster in places….
The Leonidaion, named after its donor Leonidas of Naxos, is located outside Altes…
The repatriation of the capital was made possible thanks to the sensitivity and courage of a German woman…
The voluntary handover of the fragment of the column is now part of the long chain of similar actions in recent years….
