Met Agrees To Return Antiquities To Italy

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is prepared to return disputed antiquities to Italy in a compromise discussed at a meeting in Rome Tuesday between the Met’s director and Italian officials, Culture Minister Rocco Buttiglione said. The items include a 2,500-year-old wine pot, or krater, by the Greek artist Euphronios that Italian prosecutors say was robbed from a tomb outside Rome, and a 15-piece set of Hellenistic silver they say was looted at Morgantina in Sicily.”