Last year New York’s Metropolitan Museum sent back to Italy the Euphronios krater, the great sixth ... place (stretching four city blocks) and Greek vases probably aren’t high on the list ...

Today the krater is displayed in a first-floor gallery off the main corridor of the Met’s Greek and Roman wing among dozens of other Greek vases. The museum refused to comment on Hecht’s memoirs.

It is expected that the vase will ultimately be returned to Italy, as was the Euphronios Krater, another Greek vase that was illegally excavated in Italy in 1971, bought by the Met in 1972 ...

Ancient Greek vases have been found in tombs ... an Italian peoples called the Etruscans after their homeland in Etruria. A well-known black-figure krater called the François Vase, for example, was ...

Athenian Potters and Painters: Greek Vases from Virginia Collections opens at The College ... 720-700 BCE) and ending with the later red-figure decoration on an Attic Red-Figure Column Krater by the ...

In exchange for yielding the works to Italy -- including a prized sixth-century B.C. Greek vase known as the Euphronios krater and a set of Hellenistic silver -- the Met will receive long-term ...

Such vases were often made in Athens for export across the Mediterranean, Pevnick said, particularly to Greek colonies or Etruscan communities in Italy. The primary side of the vase depicts four ...