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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on shoulder; lotus bud (row); on belly (front); point (staggered, row); Dionysian banquet (?); banqueter (draped, half-reclining, on, bed, near); woman (?, draped, seated, playing, lyre, framed by); woman (?, 2, maenad, ?, chignon, draped, riding, donkey); in the field; branch (?, of point) on belly (at the bottom); fillet; band Condition of the work: incomplete - minus the neck with the mouthpiece, the handle - varnish disappeared in places - multiple 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.