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An item at Louvre

bull (forequarters) Decoration: on forehead; bucranium; on body (side A); lion (?); bovid on body (side B); griffin; satyr (kneeling) on ​​neck; lotus flower Condition of the work: the vase is incomplete, glued back together and completed; minus a few fragments of the body, half of the mouthpiece, part of the foot, an ear and the tip of a horn.


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.