![]() The vase, which was displayed for more than two decades in the Greco-Roman galleries of the museum, is a vividly painted bell krater depicting Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and creative ecstasy, riding in a cart pulled by a satyr. The piece, a 2,300-year-old vase attributed to the Greek artist Python, was finally surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney’s office last week, after investigators issued a warrant (published by the New York Times) to the Met on July 24 after examining photographs and other evidence sent to them by Christos Tsirogiannis, a forensic archaeologist and lecturer with the Association for Research Into Crimes Against Art, who has been researching looted artifacts for several years. Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl) attributed to Python Late Classical (ca 360–350 BCE) Greek, South Italian, Paestan terracotta red-figure, diameter 14 1/2 in (image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art)Īlmost three years after being alerted that a piece of antiquity looted by tomb raiders in Italy in the 1970s was in its collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has turned it over to local authorities. ![]()
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