A: SYMPOSIUM, YOUTH AT VOLUTE KRATER, MEN RECLINING, WITH CUPS, ONE WITH PIPES, WOMAN PLAYING PIPES, BASKETS, FILLET AND CLOTH SUSPENDED | B: SYMPOSIUM, DRAPED MEN RECLINING, WITH CUPS, ONE PLAYING KOTTABOS, ONE PLAYING LYRE, BASKET AND PIPESCASE SUSPENDED | Frieze below: SKYPHOI, OINOCHOAI, CUPS, KANTHAROI, STAMNOS | I: SYMPOSIUM, DRAPED MAN RECLINING, VOMITING INTO BASIN ON BLOCK, WOMAN, PIPESCASE SUSPENDED
Provenance
3 recorded events
Excavation
c. 1830s
Vulci, Etruria, Italy
Excavated at the Vulci necropolis. The Papal States regulated excavations in its territory.
Purchase
c. 1835
Papal Government
Rome, Italy
Acquired by the Papal government under the antiquities laws requiring a share of finds from licensed excavations.
Purchase
1837
Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican
Vatican City
Placed in the newly founded Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, established by Pope Gregory XVI in 1837 to house Etruscan and Greek antiquities from Papal territory.
Vatican Museums records
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