Word: giuseppi
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...Giuseppi Foti, Reggio Calabria's superintendent of antiquities, is preparing to take back these Greek gifts from the Ionian Sea and has been working on what he hopes will be the definitive fix on their authorship and origin. Among Foti's theories, the most probable could be that a Roman ship returning from plundering Greece was caught in a storm, and the statues were jettisoned to save the vessel from foundering...