The rare Euphronios Krater purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art was repatriated to Italy in 2008. Why?
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Select one:
a.
Because it was taken illicitly from Italy at the end of World War II by an American soldier who kept it in his basement in Indiana until 1969 when his heirs sold it to art dealer Mary Boone who sold it to the museum.
b.
Because it was discovered in a sunken cargo ship dating from the late Roman period in Israeli waters. Without notifying the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA), it was clandestinely transferred to London where the art dealer Raphaël Gérard arranged the sale to the museum.
c.
Because it was illicitly taken from an area near the Etruscan necropolis of Cerveteri in December 1971 by a gang of tomb robbers. It then passed through the hands of a convicted Italian antiquities dealer and was sold to the museum by the American art dealer.
d.
Because it was purchased for a very low price from a Jewish owner who was liquidating assets in order to flee Germany in 1939. It then passed through the hands of the art historian Hildebrand Gurlitt who sold it to the museum.