Object Description

Volute Krater with Scenes from Underworld

Monumental Apulian volute krater, decorated with scenes from the underworld, ca. 320 BC, attributed to the White Sakkos Painter. 

Identification Date

Jan to May 2000

Identification Location

Jean Paul Getty Museum, California, US 

Artefact History

Before 1977

One Polaroid image in the Medici archive depicts several unrestored fragments from the main scene of the krater (a couple sitting on a kline inside a naiskos).

1977

The fragments were acquired by the Jean Paul Getty Museum and the vase, mostly restored, enters the museum’s collection with the acc. no. 77.AE.13.

2000

Using the Medici Polaroid, Italian archaeologists Dr Daniela Rizzo and Mr Maurizio Pellegrini identify the krater at the antiquities collection of the Jean Paul Getty Museum, California, US. 

Artefact Status

Between 2006 and 2007

Between 2006 and 2007, the krater was repatriated to Italy from the Jean Paul Getty Museum.