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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on basin (side A and B); maenad (crown, chiton, embroidered, nebrid, dancing, to the right, returning, head, between); eye (prophylactic); in the field; branch (of stitch) under handle; ivy leaf (vertical, on, stem, double) Condition of the work: incomplete; less the handles; gaps (basin and rim) completed in plaster; glued back


Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

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The Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities is home to a collection of artworks representing the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman civilizations; it illustrates the art of a vast area encompassing Greece, Italy, and the whole of the Mediterranean basin, and spans the period from Neolithic times (4th millennium BC) to the 6th century AD.