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The lost chalice : the epic hunt for a priceless masterpiece /

"... pieces together the extraordinary tale of the lost cup and offers a portrait of the modern antiquities trade"--Jacket.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silver, Vernon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2009]
Subjects:
Euphronius, > active 520 B.C.-470 B.C.
Chalices > Greece > Athens.
Vases, Red-figured > Greece > Athens.
Trojan War > Art and the war.
Cultural property > Repatriation > Italy.
Vases > Italy > Rome.
Classical antiquities thefts.
Athens (Greece) > Antiquities.
ISBN:9780061558283
0061558281
Table of Contents:
  • The anonymous bidder
  • Burying Sarpedon
  • The tomb
  • The "hot pot"
  • Sarpedon's lost twin
  • Hollywood and Dallas
  • Reversals of fortune
  • Auction of the century
  • Shattered
  • Accused
  • A trip to Oxford
  • Let's make a deal
  • Object X
  • The last Tombarolo
  • The chalice.

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