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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on basin (side A); Dionysus (beard, chiton, himation, holding, kéras, branch: point) flanking the handle; palmette (vertical) on basin (side B); in the field; branch (remains, point) Condition of the work: incomplete; reattached; completed; less one handle and half of the basin; concretions


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.