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Decoration: on the mouthpiece; checkerboard on the neck; garland (ivy leaf, framed by, net) on the body (front); Dionysian scene; Dionysus (beard, crown, ivy leaf, chiton, himation, with band, in profile, to the right, turning back, head, holding, kéras, facing); satyr (band, to the left); in the field; branch (of point) under the handle; branch (of point) Condition of the work: incomplete; less front part of the mouthpiece and almost all the bottom of the body; only the top of the figures remain; damaged surface at the back of the vase Restoration: reglued

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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