Greece to loan ancient artefacts for NY exhibition - The Best from Greece

Also approved was the loan of 11 items from the collections of the Benaki Museum in Athens, one item from the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens and five items from the Stamatia Tsolozidi-Zisiadi collection, which are to be loaned from November 2011 until May 2012.

The exhibition's theme will be the transition from late antiquity to the Byzantine era, covering the period up until the end of the early Byzantine period in the 7th century AD.

The antiquities loaned from state museums will include 15 artefacts from the National Archaeological Museum, 25 from the Byzantine and Christian Museum, 19 from the Numismatic Museum, nine from the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum and four from the Acropolis Museum. (ANA)