Euphronios krater (Q1323051)

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ancient Greek bowl used for mixing wine with water, made around 515 B.C.
  • Sarpedon krater
  • Euphronios Krater
  • Euphronios Krater (Sarpedon Krater)
  • Sarpedon Krater
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Euphronios krater
ancient Greek bowl used for mixing wine with water, made around 515 B.C.
  • Sarpedon krater
  • Euphronios Krater
  • Euphronios Krater (Sarpedon Krater)
  • Sarpedon Krater

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In 1994 the carabinieri found photographs of artworks in the car of a captain in the Guardia di Finanza (the customs and financial police) killed in a motorway accident. A subsequent search of his home revealed an organigram he had drawn of an international art trafficking ring.It was headed by the American Robert Edwin ‘Bob’ Hecht, a figure already known to the carabinieri. In 1972 he had sold a vase known as the Euphronios krater to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for $1m. When the tombaroli (‘tomb raiders’), the small-time traffickers in archaeological finds, heard about this sale, they felt swindled. Hecht claimed he had bought the vase from an Armenian-Lebanese collector who had stored it in Switzerland. (English)
Euphronios krater in the National Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri
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