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Decoration: interior (framing medallion); meander (interrupted, including, rectangle, staggered, line) in medallion; athlete (remains, headband, naked, holding, dumbbell, walking); in the field; athlete's pack (strigil) on basin (side A and B); palaestra scene; on basin (side A); athlete (2, naked, holding, javelin, 1, dumbbell, 1, on either side of); man (remains, naked, himation, leaning on, stick); in the field; javelin (2); strigil on basin (side B); athlete (2, remains, naked, holding, dumbbell, 1, disc, 1, decorated with, swastika, on either side of); man (remains, himation, leaning on, stick); in the field; column Condition of the work: only part of the basin remains, recomposed from eleven joined fragments - the joined fragment CP 11823 completing the man's staff on side A was reapproached by Bothmer and Guy, and other fragments by Williams - damaged surface - concretions Restoration: reattached - completed (1977)

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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