Rome – Rocco Buttiglione (Minister of the Arts) and Philippe de Montebello (Director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum) have finally undersigned the agreement for the restitution of the famous vase of Eufronio.

 The crater dated 510 b.C., on which Eufronio represents the Sarpedonte’s death narrated by Homer, was stolen in 1971 from a Cerveteri’s Etruscan tomb during a clandestine archaeological excavation and was illegally introduced in the United States, where the Metropolitan Museum bought it (exactly in 1972) by the a Swiss art dealer.

After many years of controversies due to the illegal circumstances in which the vase was acquired by the Met, Italy and Usa finally came to an understanding on the basis of which the United States engage themselves to give back to Italy the precious “crater of Eufronio”.

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