olpe

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Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on neck (front); frieze (remains, palmette, reversed, pointed, alternating with, lotus flower, stylized) on belly; painting (remains, surmounted by, meander); maenad (?, chignon, holding, rattlesnake, seated, ?, on, goat, to the left); in the field; branch (of point, bunch) Condition of the work: two fragments remain, one with the bottom of the painting with the foot; the other, composed of four joined pieces, with part of the mouthpiece, the neck and the top of the painting; chipped varnish; numerous stains Restoration: glued back on

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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