Looted marble Mask of Gorgon returned to Algeria
Artefact found in Tunisia beside the swimming pool of the ousted president’s family.
Tunisia has returned the “Mask of Gorgon” to Algeria.
The white marble artefact was found sitting beside a swimming pool in the villa of Sakher el-Materi, the son-in-law of Tunisia’s ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The “Mask of Gorgon” was originally discovered in Annaba, formerly the Roman African city of Hippo Regius, in east
The Art Newspaper
April 11, 2014
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Algeria, and it disappeared from there in 1996. After Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, the work was among 165 archaeological objects that turned up in el-Materi’s villa in Hammamet, 70km southeast of Tunis.
El-Materi sought asylum in the Seychelles and has since been convicted in absentia of corruption and property fraud. The mask remained in Tunisia for nearly three years until the legal procedures for its return to Algeria were finalized.
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