stamnos

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Decoration: on mouthpiece; oves; on belly (top); tongues; on belly (side A and B); Dionysian scene (cult scene, ?) on belly (side A); woman (maenad, ?, remains, chiton, himation, near); Dionysus (cult statue, column, branch: leaf, mask, draped, behind); table (offering: bread, ?, several, bandage, between, stamnos, 2); right; woman (maenad, ?, remains, chiton, holding, skyphos) on belly (side B); woman (3, remains, maenad, ?, chiton, himation, holding, skyphos, 1, umbrella, ?, 1) under handle; woman (headband, crown: ivy leaf, chiton, himation, playing, aulos); woman (maenad, ?, headband, chiton, himation, holding, skyphos) on belly (bottom); meander Condition of the work: the vase is incomplete; minus one handle and the foot as well as large parts of the belly completed in plaster; MNE 1306 recomposed of 5 joined fragments completes the mouth, the neck and the upper part of the belly (2 female heads); surface riddled with splinters

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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