A marble fragment from the Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis will be voluntarily returned to Greece in Lyon by the Prefecture of the Rhone on Thursday, ANA reports.
The architectural fragment, dated to the 5th century BC, is originally from the upper architectural section of the Erechtheion (Temple of Athena Polias), the Ministry of Culture noted in a statement. It bears an egg-and-leaf sculpted decoration.
The fragment was turned over to the prefecture on behalf of a French citizen, Jacqueline Junelles, who had possession of the fragment since the 1970s.
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