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IN 1972 Robert Hecht bought a hatbox full of Greek vase
fragments, had them glued back together and sold the resulting vase
to the Metropolitan Museum in New York for $1m, the highest price
that had ever been recorded for a work of classical antiquity. The
vase, with only a chip or two missing, depicted the death of
Sarpedon, a son of Zeus killed in the Trojan wars, and was painted
c 510 BC by Euphronios, the Rembrandt of Greek vase painters.
A major international scandal ensued. The I...
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