crater

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Decoration: on edge; meander; on mouth; register (2); upper register (side A); banquet scene; repeated motif (4); banqueter (beard, half-draped, lying down, on, bed, to the left, behind, table, supporting, food, near); ephebe (nude, headband, holding out, arms); left; ephebe (nude, holding, oinochoe, walking, towards, crater with columns) upper register (side B); banquet scene (remains); woman (sakkos, chiton, himation, lying down, to the left, on, bed, cushion, near); man (beard, half-draped, lying down, behind, food) lower register (side A); Achilles and Ajax playing dice; Athena (helmet, chiton, aegis, holding, spear, in front); stool (cubic, in the background, flanked by); hero (Achilles, Ajax, helmet, tunic, sword, baldric, crouching, holding, lance, 2, flanked by); sphinx (2, returning, head); eye (prophylactic); in the field; bird (flying) lower register (side B); woman (2, draped, fleeing, to the right) on handle (on volute); garland (ivy leaf) Condition of the work: only half of the mouthpiece remains with part of the handle; gaps in the mouthpiece completed in plaster; glued back

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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