See About archive blog posts. Last year New York’s Metropolitan Museum sent back to Italy the Euphronios krater, the great sixth-century BC painted vase it had acquired under dubious ...

While studying an ancient Greek krater—a clay vase used for mixing wine—something “suddenly clicked,” he says. The vase was decorated with a painting of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine.

Medici turned up one morning at Hecht’s apartment in Rome and showed him a Polaroid photograph of a krater signed by Euphronios, a master vase painter of ancient Greece, the memoir says.

The volute krater in particular was popular in Apulia and could be made very large, reaching to heights between 1 and 1.5 meters. Characteristic of South Italian vase painting are ... with a tomb ...

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 ...

The Euphronius Krater — a large vase painted with scenes related to Homer’s epic poems “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” — is regarded as one of the finest examples of its kind.