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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on belly (top); tabs; on belly (side A); banquet scene (remains); man (beard, ?, himation, half-draped, lying, on, bed, cushion, playing, zither); man (2, remains: head, crown: leaf, 1, beard, singing, ?, 1) on belly (side B); comos scene; young man (himation, holding, skyphos, near); young man (?, himation, holding, torch, ?) around the handle; plant decoration (?) Condition of the work: Remains 6 non-joined fragments of the belly. A fragment composed of 4 glued together gives the banqueter side A, a fragment of the shoulder gives a head and the arm of a banqueter (side A); a fragment composed of (joined fragments, one of which is detached, giving a comaste holding a skyphos and a man holding a torch (side B); 3 non-joined fragments from side B give pieces of himation and a head.


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.