The head of Hades, Greek God of the Underworld finally returned home to Sicily, Italy on Friday after almost three years of negotiations with the Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, U.S.
Known as “Bluebeard” due to the pigment of its curly whiskers, the head of Hades was stolen by anonymous from Sicily in the 1970s and sold to the Getty by the collector in New York Maurice Tempelsman for 500 thousand dollars.
The home of the stolen head, which is more than 2,000 years old, was identified when archaeologists discovered fragments of its blue ‘facial hair’ at an excavation site in Sicily, as RT reports.
Blue Bear Returns – clip Rai3 (La Testa Barbablù – servizio Rai3) https://t.co/SMmFEt9XbE #TestadiAde #HeadofHades pic.twitter.com/7CKSfF8Kdt
— Consul General LA (@consulgeneralLA) January 28, 2016
A deal was made to return the head from the US in 2013, where it remained in storage until Italian officials could arrange its return.
Getty Museum to return Hades terracotta head to Sicily http://t.co/ZrsLR819 January 10, 2013 …original location was site of sanctuary to..
— LIVE COVERAGE (@LIVE_COVERAGE) January 12, 2013
