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An item at Louvre

Decoration: interior (in medallion); satyr (remains, running, to the right, holding, bunch of grapes) on basin (side A); Theseus and the Minotaur; Theseus (remains, nude, belt, scabbard, running, to the right, holding, sword, pursuing); Minotaur (remains, fleeing, to the right, holding, stone); left; man (remains, nude, running, to the left) flanking the handle; palmette (open, on, stem) under handle; lotus bud (horizontal) Condition of the work: fragment CP 12508 gives the lower part of the Minotaur; reattached; fragment NY 1972.228 completes the section


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.