ＩＳ破壊した彫刻復元　イラクの古代都市ハトラ

【ＡＦＰ＝時事】イラク政府は、イスラム過激派組織「イスラム国（ＩＳ）」に破壊された古代都市ハトラの代表的な彫刻３点を復元し、先月公開した。（写真はイスラム過激派組織「イスラム国（ＩＳ）」に破壊されたイラクの古代都市ハトラ）
　ハトラは、紀元１世紀から２世紀にかけてローマ帝国とパルティア帝国の交易拠点となっていて、広大な都市遺跡は国連教育科学文化機関（ＵＮＥＳＣＯ）の世界遺産に指定されている。ＩＳは２０１５年、この遺跡をつるはしや銃で破壊し尽くす様子を撮影した動画を公開した。
　報道陣に公開されたのは、ローマの影響を受けた等身大の彫像や、大神殿の壁に刻まれた人の顔のレリーフなど。
　ハトラ遺跡があるニナワ県の遺跡管理当局責任者によると、粉々にされた彫刻の破片を遺跡全体から捜し集め、見つからなかった部分は同じ種類の石で修復した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/03/09-10:46）

Iraq unveiled three monumental sculptures in the ancient city of Hatra Thursday, newly restored after being vandalised by militants of the Islamic State group during their brief but brutal rule.
The jihadists released video footage in 2015 of their orgy of destruction at Hatra in which they took guns and pickaxes to the once extensive remains of what was one of the leading trade entrepots between the Roman and Parthian empires in the first and second centuries AD.
A Roman-style sculpture of a life-size figure and a series of reliefs of faces on the side of the great temple were among the restored pieces shown off to journalists.
IS destroyed everything that was important in this city, senior antiquities official Ali Obeid Sholgham told AFP.
Provincial antiquities chief Khair al-Din Ahmed Nasser said works of art were ripped out and shattered -- we found fragments all over the site.
We recovered some pieces, Others which were missing we replaced with the same type of stone.
The restoration work at Hatra is being carried out by Iraqi experts in collaboration with Italy's International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies with funding from the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas.
IS filmed similar acts of destruction by its militants in Mosul Museum, 100 kilometres (65 miles) northeast of Hatra, and in Palmyra in neighbouring Syria.
Iraqi government forces retook Hatra in 2017, several months before claiming victory over the jihadists who swept through much of the north and west of the country three years earlier.
Iraq's ancient heritage had already been hit by a wave of looting of museums and ancient sites in the aftermath of the US-led invasion of 2003.