The owner, 85 year old Martha Dahlgren from Öckerö, returned the fragment by first giving it as an inheritance to her daughter Isabell Mattsson Jonsson who there after passed the fragment on to her daughter, 12 year old Alice Mattsson.

The main attraction was when Alice finally returned the fragment to the Culture Minister of Greece. Photos of Alice when she returned the marble fragment was a feature in news broadcasts on Tuesday evening and on the front-pages of Greek newspapers.

It was Martha’s father, who was an Austrian officer during the second world war, who picked up the stone and brought it from Acropolis to Austria 1943. After Martha received inheritance from her father it has been placed in the bookcase in her living room for many years. Early this autumn Martha saw a documentary of another return of antic marble to Greece. Martha decided to ask the Mediterranean Museum in Stockholm about their opinion and an evaluation of the fragment . The Museum said that the fragment is most probably a border from one of the monuments on the Acropolis rock.

With support from the Mediterranean Museum, The Parthenon Committee and the Ministry for Culture in Greece the returning and a ceremony was arrange at the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. Bertil Jobeus, former counsellor at the Swedish Embassy and now a member of the Parthenon Committee escorted the family to Greece.