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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on neck (front); frieze (palmette, horizontal, surrounded by, stem, point, surmounting); stylized pomegranates (file) on belly; painting (framed by, meander, stylized pomegranates, file, vertical); maenad (bun, bottom, headband, chiton, himation, walking, to the right, holding, zither); in the field; branch (of point) Condition of the work: incomplete; less the handle and part of the belly; two old holes near the handle; two fragments

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

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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