Museum receives package from woman seeking forgiveness over graffitied artefact
When the management of the National Roman Museum received a bulky package sent from overseas, they were not expecting to find inside a fragment of ancient marble inscribed with the message: “To Sam, love Jess, Rome 2017.”
Accompanying the relic was a letter from a young woman, called Jess, seeking forgiveness “for being such an American asshole”. She went on to say that she took something that was not “rightfully mine”, and was returning it.