Yerevan/Mediamax/. The British Museum didn’t get a request on returning the fragments of the statue of Anahit goddess to Armenia.

As Mediamax reported earlier, Armenian Youth Foundation started collecting signatures for returning the fragments of the statue of the goddess from the British Museum to Armenia.

In their message addressed to the UK Ambassadors to Armenia Katherine Jane Leach and Jonathan James Aves, representatives of the Foundation urged to give the head and arm of the bronze statue of Anahit goddess kept in British Museum back to Armenia noting that cultural-historical assets should be kept and exhibited in the country they had been created.

Press and PR Manager of the British Museum Olivia Rickman told Mediamax today that the relevant department and the British Museum had not had any request regarding this object yet.

According to the information placed on the official site of the British Museum, the head of the bronze statue of Anahit goddess was found in the town of Sadak (nowadays’ Turkey) in 1872. The head of the statue was brought to Constantinople and then - to Italy. The head was then purchased by Alessandro Castellany who later handed the exhibit over to the British Museum.