THE RETURN TO THESSALONIKI MAGEMENES

In Thessaloniki, in place exactly where they were and from where detached two centuries ago, will return in the coming months the Roman Incantadas
The enchanted, Las Incantadas, the "Kalokyris market", "the Elgin Thessaloniki ', the' Images "for the Christians of Thessalonica can ...
not eventually return to their homeland as such, but come on lamps and candles of the faithful copies.The ... clones. Which undertook to build the image and likeness of the relevant department of the Louvre Museum (cast workshop of national museums of France), as "holy bread" for the major exhibition to be held in a French museum on the life and career of Alexander the Great by October 3. These four statues bilaterally, the Maenad, Dionysus, Ariadne, Leda, Ganymede, one of Dioscuri, and the aura of victory, dating st6i Roman period (second century AD C.), unimaginable beauty and great archeological value, removed in 1864 by Frenchman Emmanuel Miller, with the permission of the Ottoman authorities. The Gallery of images or seduced named after the Christian inhabitants of Thessaloniki and the Sephardim, the Spanish Jews who came to Thessaloniki from Sepharadh region of Spain. The gallery of images - monument was erected by the Romans to decorate the south entrance to the forum, by the side of the current Egnatia _ was found to be integrated into the home of the wealthy Jewish Draper Liatsos Arditi, in the neighborhood Rogos, on the north side of Egnatia. The decision was taken, the time of transfer and resettlement in Thessaloniki was the end of the year (in early 2012 the city celebrates 100 years since its liberation from the Turks) and "tolls" was to just 186,000 Euros _ amount available to the Municipality of Thessaloniki. The price of the true construction of the matrices (molds) and copies as well as transportation of the statues. A request for return of protodiamorfothei had seduced the preparation period of the city as the Cultural Capital of Europe (1997), he took the occasion to regenerate the Ancient Agora (the southern part of the alleged that the enchanted were placed in the Temple of images from the 2nd century AD to the detachment and transportation in France in 1864), eventually returned two years ago when former Mayor B. Papageorgopoulos announced from the podium of the municipal council of the municipality's intention to reclaim the statues on the occasion of preparing the city to celebrate 100 years of its release. The claim of "seduced" had become one of the main slogans of the election campaign Mayor C. Arapoglou candidate (in municipal elections in 2006) and returned to the subject and the then Minister of Macedonia - Thrace S. Kalafatis. On repeated claims that "solution" came to "exchange" and the final draft was discussed last week at a meeting between the new municipal authority of the French Consul, representatives of the Louvre Museum and the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. "It's very important that _ even in the form of copies _ the enchanted back to Thessaloniki. It was certainly important to receive the originals but ... Copies will go to the museum and archaeologists will determine where and how public exhibition, "says" new "Deputy Mayor for Culture, Education and Tourism, Spyros Peggy. "It is mad to get the statues," Analytical and revealing the conditions of that time removed the description is enchanted by Mark Mazaouer Hellenist in his study "Salonica, City of Ghosts. Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 "," The Elgin Thessaloniki was a wise Frenchman fifty-one old named Emmanuel Miller, an expert in paleography passion for manuscripts. Later it became Professor of Modern Greek in Paris.writes to his wife on October 10, 1864: "hurry to send you the good, great news ... The Sultan through the Grand Vizier, Fuad Pasha's, gave me permission to release and convey to France eight statues of Salonika I wanted so much ... The population has already stirred and resent.They are furious that I will get the statues .