These two late-roman busts have been shattered and damaged by ISIS (mercenaries in service to the U.S. UK Israeli Saudi and Qatari interests).
Having chased the islamist goons from the areas they had swarmed into, syrian authorities have been finally able to recover the pieces of the two work of arts.
But the work of analisys, damage assesment and restoration required expertise and technologies beyon the ones available locally, especially in these times of turmoil.
As these pictures do show, both of them have been offered to the Syrian Arab Republic by Italy.
