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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Jordyn Beazley

ANU museum to hand back stolen 2,500-year-old vase to Italy

Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney, curator of the ANU Classics Museum, views the Johnson Vase.
Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney, curator of the ANU Classics Museum, views the Johnson Vase. Photograph: Jamie Kidston/ANU

For decades a vase dating back to 530BC with two handles depicting Herakles attempting to stab the Nemean lion has been a seminal piece in the Australian National University’s collection.

But now the university will repatriate the vase and two other artefacts to Italy after it was revealed the vase was illegally excavated and sold.

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