The Euphronios Krater stands 45.7 cm (18 inches) in height and has a diameter of 55.1 cm (21.7 inches). It is now in the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri it as part of a strategy of returning stolen works of art to their place of origin.
Illegally excavated from an Etruscan cemetery near Cerveteri, it was part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 1972 to 2008, until repatriated to Italy under an agreement negotiated in February 2006. Created around the year 515 BC, it is the only complete example of the surviving 27 vases painted by the renowned Euphronios and is considered one of the finest Ancient Greek vases in existence. The Euphronios Krater (or Sarpedon Krater) is an ancient Greek terra cotta calyx- krater, a bowl used for mixing wine with water. The free online edition of this open-access catalogue is available at Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book, CSV and JSON downloads of the object data, and JPG downloads of the catalogue images.Front side depicting Sarpedon’s body carried by Hypnos and Thanatos (Sleep and Death), while Hermes watches Among the works included are a significant dinoid volute krater and a volute krater with the Labors of Herakles that is attributed to the Kleophrades Painter. Paul Getty Museum and the first ever to be published open access-presents a selection of Attic red-figure column and volute kraters ranging from 520 to 510 BCE through the early fourth century BCE. This new fascicule of the CVA-the tenth issued by the J. Nearly four hundred volumes have been published since the first fascicule appeared in 1922.
Cataloging some hundred thousand examples of ancient Greek painted pottery held in collections around the world, the authoritative Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Corpus of Ancient Vases) is the oldest research project of the Union Académique Internationale. This expansive catalogue of ancient Greek painted pottery brings an important series into the digital age with a new open-access format.
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