

In the center stands a warrior, whose long spear breaks the picture plane into two parts. Send us feedback about these examples.This type of krater, or bowl for mixing wine and water, takes its name from the resemblance of its shape to an inverted bell. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'krater.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 31 July 2017 See More 2017 The return of the Euphronios krater was an international dispute that played out over decades before the Met agreed to send it back. which was found at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Tom Mashberg,, 21 June 2020 Among other finds was an Apulian red figure krater dated to around 360-350 B.C. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles gave back 47, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston repatriated 13. CNN, 5 June 2021 From 2006 to 2011, the Met returned 20 Roman objects in addition to the krater, the J. New York Times, 17 July 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of Art has also relinquished scores of antiquities with questionable provenance to Italy, most famously the 2,500-year-old Euphronios krater and more than a dozen pieces of Hellenistic silver in 2006. red-figure krater had been looted in 1971 from a Cerveteri tomb and sold a year later to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $1 million, an unprecedented sum at that time.

2023 In an agreement which saw the Euphronios krater returned to Italy, the Met has received objects on loan. 2023 Just last Tuesday, a bronze bowl, or krater, more than two thousand years old, stolen from a tomb in Macedonia, was handed to Greece's culture minister. Recent Examples on the Web Von Bothmer, who died in 2009, had long denied being lax in his acquisition standards or cavalier in accepting the krater.
