To celebrate the International Day against the Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property, called by Unesco, which falls on November 14 each year, Sapienza organised a meeting, attended by the Rector Antonella Polimeni, in which archaeologists and representatives of law enforcement agencies and institutions, united by their commitment to the protection and recovery of dispersed archaeological heritage, participated.

The meeting was preceded by the presentation of Etruscan artefacts, some of which were on display for the first time in the exhibition 'Caere. Storia di dispersioni e di recuperi', held at the Museum of Etruscan and Italic Antiquities of Sapienza University.

Among the exhibits presented is a large goblet krater with red figures, twin of the 'Sarpedon Krater', literally 'signed' by Euphronios, one of the greatest Greek artists of the late 6th century B.C.; the work depicts a fight scene between Heracles and Kynos, embellished by the presence of the names of both the ceramographer and the protagonists represented. The krater was returned from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and has now been entrusted to Sapienza by the Soprintendenza Archeologia belle arti e paesaggio for the province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria.

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