Missing Antiquities of Albania
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CATALOGUE OF MISSING ANTIQUITIES

   
Head of Asklepios
Marble head of elderly man, with full wavy hair and beard; Probably late Hellenistic; Butrint Archaeological Museum, Inv. 60; Stolen from the Butrint Archaeological Museum in 1991
   
Fragmentary statue of Mercury leaning on a herm
A herm with a bearded male head acts as support for a figure of Mercury, of which only parts of the left shoulder and mantle survive; Late Hellenistic – early Imperial; Butrint Archaeological Museum, Inv. 12; Stolen from Butrint in 1991
   
The warrior of Sosikles
Statue of a cuirassed man signed by the Athenian sculptor Sosikles; First century AD; Sent to Italy in 1940; possibly destroyed by allied bombing in 1943
   
Fragment of relief with nude male figure
Relief depicting a nude male from lower abdomen to the middle of the thighs, in movement towards the left; First-second century AD; Butrint Archaeological Museum, Inv. 179; Appears to be missing; possibly stolen in 1991
   
Goddess of Butrint/Dea di Butrinto
Statue of a women wearing a long belted chiton and a large mantle draped around her hips and left shoulder in generous folds. Traditionally known as the ‘Goddess of Butrint’, and associated with a head currently in the National Museum in Tirana (inv. no. 1227 – see photo), though final confirmation of this association awaits the rediscovery of the statue; Early first century AD; Sent to Naples on loan in 1940; possibly destroyed by allied bombing in 1943
   
Small portrait head of a man
The head, probably from a marble relief, represent an unbearded man with short cropped hair and furrowed brow; Early Imperial; No record of the head exists since its excavation in 1928-1932
   
Portrait head of a woman
Marble portrait head of Roman matron with a hairstyle in the manner of Agrippina the Younger; Mid-first century AD (Claudian); Butrint Archaeological Museum, Inv. 535; Stolen from the Butrint Archaeological Museum in 1991
   
Large Herculaneum Woman (‘Grande Hercolanese’)
Marble statue of veiled, standing woman; body entirely covered by her drapery; right hand drawing part of the mantle diagonally across her chest; First half of first century AD; Butrint Archaeological Museum, Inv. 584; Statue sent to Italy in 1940; still unaccounted for. Top of skull missing. Head stolen from the Butrint Archaeological Museum in 1991, returned in 2003