amphora

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Decoration: on body (side A and B); comos scene (remains) on body (side A); painting (surmounted by, palmette and lotus bud, chain, double, alternating); comast (3, nude, dancing, on either side of); musician (pilos, beard, chiton, short, playing, aulos) on body (side B); painting (surmounted by, palmette and lotus bud, chain, double); comast (3, nude, beard, 1, dancing, on either side of); musician (crown, phorbeia, chiton, short, playing, aulos) on body (at the bottom); radiating edges Condition of the work: the vase is incomplete; less the foot; large chip (lip); glued back (body); significant gaps (several areas in the figurative paintings, under the handle A_B and in the lower part of the vase) filled in plaster; significant concretions (especially in the upper part of the vase); alteration of the surface of the vase (black varnish under the first comast of face B); alteration of the white highlights (face B)

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

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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.

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