Greek Art "Sent Back" to Italy

This is Greek, anyone can see

New York prosecutors "returned" in an elaborate ceremony "an ancient Etruscan vessel to the Italian Republic". Min. Plen. Francesco Genuardi, Consul General of Italy in New York, said:

 “Today, a marvelous Etruscan vessel, dated around 470 B.C. and stolen from Italy in the nineties, finally returns to Italy and I am very proud to accept it as part of our cultural and artistic heritage [...] This repatriation ceremony represents a tremendous result in the framework of the significant strengthening of the collaboration between Italy and the United States

So this is yet another expression of the effete "soft power" vision of the Obama government hoping to win friends by pandering to the nationalist sentiments of foreign governments. The object was seized back in February by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office from a dealer's gallery in Midtown Manhattan together with an ancient marble sarcophagus fragment which was earlier repatriated to the Hellenic Republic which they claimed had been taken from Greece in the early 1990s. As for the pot:

The dual-handled vessel dates back to approximately 470 B.C. and was stolen in the mid-1990s from Cerveteri, a present-day municipality located to the north of Rome, Italy, and the historic site of an ancient Etruscan necropolis. The value of the vessel, which depicts a nude satyr and draped youth, is estimated at more than $250,000. Once presented with evidence of theft, the item was forfeited willingly by the Manhattan-based art gallery where it was advertised and displayed. [...]

The problem is, the pot was not made in Italy at all, merely found there. It is an Attic red-figured amphora, attributed to the Harrow painter (Tom Mashberg, "Stolen Etruscan Vessel to Be Returned to Italy", New York Times March 16, 2017), so for the archeological false news peddlars to describe it as "Etruscan' in order to justify "sending it back to Italy" is a political sleight of hand having nothing to do with truth and justice. Hopefully the Trump administration will now put an end to such abuses.