amphora

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Decoration: on collar (side A and B); palmette and lotus flower (chain, double) on shoulder; tongues on belly (side A); quadriga (front, led by); charioteer (remains, beard, chiton, between); hoplite (2, helmet, shield, epiblema: leg, 1, lion, remains, 1, greave, holding, spear, 2) on belly (side B); Dionysian scene; Dionysus (beard, crown: vine leaf, chiton, himation, holding, kéras, between); maenad (2, peplos, 1, chiton, 1, nebrid, 1); satyr (2, nude, beard); in the field; branch (vine leaf, bunch of grapes) under handle; plant motif (palmette, 4, lotus flower, 3) on belly (below); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; reglued; minus one handle; numerous gaps on the body; breaks and chips (mouthpiece); the highlights are erased

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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