The items included a Corinthian bronze helmet from the 3rd or 4th century BCE and an Attic kylix bowl from 550–40 BCE, ceramics, as well as four gold coins that were stolen from the National Archaeological Museum in Parma in 2009.

The repatriation of the items took place in a ceremony in Rome between Guido Limmer, vice president of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office, and Vincenzo Molinese, Generale di Brigata, on June 5.

The return highlights the cooperation between the Italian and Bavarian authorities in protecting cultural assets as a common European heritage.

A 16th-century Venetian casket, stolen from the Castello Sforzesco museum in Milan in 2006, was also recovered and returned to Italy.

The casket had been illegally trafficked through the United Kingdom to Belgium and then to Germany, where it was offered for sale.

Produced in the Embriachi workshop, the casket featured a distinctive combination of wood inlays and animal bone carvings.

Its recovery adds to the successful repatriation efforts.

In December 2019, the Carabinieri cultural heritage police in Italy identified an auction house in Munich selling the stolen kylix bowl.

The bowl, a drinking cup used in ancient Greece, was secured by the Bavarian State Criminal Police under the country's cultural property protection law.

German police had recovered the stolen items through investigations that began in the summer of 2019.

The repatriation also included four Roman-Byzantine gold coins that were individually minted and introduced as a new monetary unit by Emperor Constantine the Great in 309.

The coins were recovered from both companies and private owners through the investigations conducted by German police.

Their return adds to the preservation of cultural heritage.

The ceremony in Rome symbolizes the good cooperation between the Italian and Bavarian authorities in protecting cultural assets.