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An item at Louvre

Decoration: interior (in medallion); character (remains, face) on basin (side A and B); Dionysus (seated); eye (prophylactic) flanking the handle; Silenus (dancing) in the field; branch without leaves; bunch of grapes under handle; dolphin (?) Condition of the work: only two fragments of the body remain, composed of six and half of a handle - altered highlights Restoration: reattached - completed (small plugging)


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.