Elisabetta Povoledo, NYT

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Mosaic from ‘floating palace’ of Caligula returns home

Crafted in the 1st century and recovered in 1895, it recently emerged as a coffee table

Authorities stand around a 1.5 square metre colorful mosaic dating back to AD 40 and belonging to the flooring of Caligula’s lavish ceremonial ships, that was found thanks to a joint police operation in the rooms of a Manhattan house and returned to the museum of Nemi, near Rome, Thursday, March 11, 2021. In September 2017, the department for cultural heritage protection of the Italian Carabinieri police, in collaboration with New York district attorney, managed to sequester the mosaic from the house of an Italian-American woman who brought it in the states illegally many decades earlier.

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