in 1989, the government of cyprus took an american art dealer to court for the return of four rare 6th-century byzantine mosaics that survived an edict by the byzantine emperor, imposing the destruction of all images of sacred figures. cyprus won the case, and the mosaics were eventually returned. in october 1997, aydın dikmen, who had sold the mosaics, was arrested in germany in a police raid and found to be in possession of a stash consisting of mosaics, frescoes and icons dating back to the 6th, 12th and 15th centuries, worth over $50 million. the mosaics, depicting saints thaddeus and thomas, are two more sections from the apse of the kanakaria church, while the frescoes, including the last judgement and the tree of jesse, were taken off the north and south walls of the monastery of antiphonitis, built between the 12th and 15th centuries. frescoes found in possession of dikmen included those from the 11th–12th century church of panagia pergaminiotisa in akanthou, which had been completely stripped of its ornate frescoes.