![]() ![]() ![]() Many were discovered by foreign-led excavation teams (or looters), without whom the item would never have been found in the first place. Some objects were plundered, but some traded for, some given as gifts. The Krater it is a rare huge urn for mixing wine with water, 12 gallons worth, dating to around 510 BC, signed by the painter Euphronios. ![]() The essence of these vase is the greater detail that the artists were able to get and the greater variation using brush-strokes rather than incisions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired the 2500-year-old krater an ornate bowl used to combine water with wine for 1 million in 1972. EUPHRONIOS CALYX KRATER This is the first of a new type of vase, the RED-FIGURE type, which, as its name suggests, the opposite of the type we have looked at so far. The past is messy, confused and how we have arrived at today is neither simple, nor black and white. Consider the case of the Euphronios krater. Probably found with the krater is another vase by Euphronios, a kylix, or drinking cup, that also shows the death of Sarpedon. She claims, “It would be ludicrous to suggest every tiny pot and statuette across the continent needs to be re-litigated” – but that is precisely the issue if someone else has a claim to it, the precedent of the Elgin Marbles, if returned, strengthens the case for repatriation at the request of the claimant, not diminishes it. When listing the arguments against the repatriation of the marbles, she missed the strongest one: repatriation is a Pandora’s Box and will have unforeseen and unpleasant consequences, due to the complexities of a murky past. The Euphronios krater, a renowned red-figured Greek vase from the sixth century B.C., is widely believed to have been illegally excavated in 1971 from an Etruscan tomb near Rome. Sir, – There is a flaw in Finn McRedmond's argument on who history belongs to, as exemplified by the Elgin Marbles debate, and how Ireland is not immune from this issue ( Opinion, November 25th). ![]()
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