An official query into an deed of vandalism at the Byzantine together with Christian Museum inwards Athens on July 28 has been initiated, the Ministry of Culture said on Thursday, adding that at that topographic point was "no irreparable impairment to exhibits."
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Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture together with Sports |
According to the ministry's statement, "two women walking through the halls of permanent together with rotating exhibits" sprayed an oil-based liquid on exhbition objects, drinking glass cases, walls together with the floor, an deed that was non noticed at the time.
The "malicious act", the ministry building said, "did non campaign whatsoever irreparable impairment to ancient objects, which conduct maintain well-nigh all been cleaned past times now," piece an official constabulary query is nether agency to seat the culprits next the museum together with ministry's initiative.
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Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture together with Sports |
Museum Director Ekaterini Delaporta told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) that "conservators undertook all analyses directly together with took all necessary measures" to restore "to a swell bird the damage." However, she added, "the impairment to the edifice itself needs to endure rectified because the walls together with floors of the museum's interior are sprayed amongst oil."
She said that a Coptic cross dating to the sixth century AD sustained impairment that may non endure simply reversible, every 2nd it is made of woods together with it absorbed the oil. The investigation at nowadays rests amongst the ministry building together with the police, "who conduct maintain taken over the case," she told ANA.
Source: ANA-MPA [August 16, 2018]
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