"Carlo Alberto archaeologist in Sardinia. The false Sardinian-Phoenician idols"

20 giugno 2018
From 6th April 2018 until 7th February 2019 the archaeological collection of the Antiquarium Arborense is enriched by the presence of the temporary exhibition
"Carlo Alberto archaeologist in Sardinia. The false Sardinian-Phoenician idols"
The main characters of this kind of 'detective story' are a king and a government official.
This story tells about the sale of 330 false Sardinian- Phoenician idols to the king of Sardinia Carlo Alberto, to the museum of Lyon and to the museum of Cagliari by Gaetano Cara, the director of the Museum of Antiquity in the University of Cagliari.
Seventy idols of this collection are on display in the Museum of Antiquity of Turin, but 150 idols are on display in the Antiquarium Arborense of Oristano.
The exhibition will be open until 7th February 2019.