The Capitoline Museums, founded in 1471 with the donation of Pope Sixtus IV of a series of imperial bronzes to the city council of Rome, claims to be the oldest public museum in the world. There are two significant temple pediments with terracotta narrative scenes from the 6th and 2nd centuries BC respectively (I will treat each of them in subsequent separate posts). Today our attention is drawn to a mid-7th century BC krater from a tomb in the Etruscan city of Caere. The bl