http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/design/11voge.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a famous ceramic vessel to Italy. It's a positive step. Hopefully the other objects from the Cerveteri tomb will be reassembled in time, and researchers will one day be able to study these artifacts in one collection. Context reveals information that objects alone can never provide. Who used the vessel? For what purpose? How was it lost, and why?
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