Doubts about the authenticity of one of the The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently restored 351 antiques.become known in recent days.

This question concerns red-figure amphora depicting one satyr and goatan object which, according to the ministry report (19/5), dates from “the beginning of the 5th century BC”.

From the side Christos Cyrogiannisarchaeologist and researcher of illegal antiquities and international antiquities circles, in his statements to the Guardian newspaper, claims that the vessel is not at all valuable, but modern forgery created in the 1990s.

The whole question arises in the context of a longstanding effort to repatriate antiques once owned by a British art dealer. Robin Simeswho had shady connections.

Last week, the Greek government announced the end of the 17-year-old claim and the artifacts were returned to the country.

However, according to the Greek expert, it was this vase that was the subject of the scientist’s work. Dietrich von Bothmer in 1998 in the archaeological journal Minerva, which considered the symbols on the object’s surface to be a “modern forgery”, probably painted in the 1990s.