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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on basin (side A and B); palestra scene (surrounded by); palmette (on, stem, connected to, eyebrow); eye (prophylactic) on basin (side A); athlete (to the right, leaning, grasping, javelin); in the field (javelin, on, ground) on basin (side B); man (nude, crouching, facing, remains) Condition of the work: incomplete; less the foot with the base, the handles and several fragments of the basin; lacunae completed in plaster; fragment NY 1977.451.1 (not integrated) completes the basin; reattached; completed (basin); fragment NY 1977.451.1 (on deposit at New York, Metropolitan Museum) is in a bag with two other fragments in a box

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.