Princeton University Art Museum and Italy to sign agreement over antiquities

Two of the four objects to be transferred in title to the Italian government but to remain on loan to the Princeton University Art Museum are this ceramic red figure psykter (top), Greek, Attic, ca. B.C., and the Apulian red figure loutrophoros (below), from South Italy, ca. B.C. Below: This Roman inlaid dagger and sheath made of bronze, iron, silver, gold and niello, ca. first-second centuries A.D., is one of seven objects to remain permanently at the Princeton University Art Museum. The Princeton University Art Museum and Italian cultural authorities on Oct. 30 will sign an agreement that resolves the ownership of 15 works of art in the museum's collection. The signing will take place in Rome. The agreement includes three works that became the subject of an Italian inquiry in 2004: a Greek psykter, an Apulian loutrophoros and an Etruscan relief. Two of these works - the psykter and the loutrophoros, which are types of vases - will remain on loan to the University museum as part of a joint research program established between the museum and the Italian government.