United States returned the Turkish half of the sculpture "Weary Herakles"

The upper half of statuyy moved on Sunday to Turkey by plane, which was attended by himself Tayyip Erdogan. Boston Museum of Fine Arts nerek his decision to return the exhibit "a gesture of good-natured will." The Turkish side has repeatedly asserted itself statuya was abducted in 1980 from the excavation site in Perge on the Mediterranean coast. There's close to the Turkish resort of Antalya there are the ruins of the ancient Greek city. Artifact was then smuggled exported to the United States. The lower part of statuyy also found in Perge in 1980, at the moment is saved in the image of the Antalya Museum with photos upper part of the Boston Museum. To confirm the unity of upper and lower halves statuyy in 1992 in Boston, visited the Turkish delegation. As evidence was brought to a plaster cast bottom statuyy. Marble statuya "Weary Herakles" is itself an artifact of the height of five feet. Her age has about a thousand 900 years. Statue depicts the waning of Hercules leaning on his bat, thrown from the top any way hide the Nemean lion. This is one of the great statues nainaibolee antiquity, is of itself koiya Roman copy nedoshedshego to us a Greek original of 4th century BC, the authorship of which belongs to the Greek sculptor Lysippos. The statue was popular among the Romans, a copy of it adorned almost all the ancient Roman palaces and gymnasiums. According to Erdogan, Turkey-wide struggle for the return of their own cultural values ​​have been successfully returned to his homeland the most 4 thousand different artifacts illegally exported to different powers in 2002, ITAR-TASS.