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Sacred religious artefact returned to Ethiopia after being saved from sale

18 September 2023

“I decided to acquire it from the owner myself so as to return it to Ethiopia. This was not my preferred option, but I think it was better than seeing it go into unknown private hands,” Dr Jacopo Gnisci (UCL History of Art) on returning a religious artifact to Ethiopia.

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