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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on neck (front); palmette (2, open, horizontal, surrounded by, stem, point) on belly; painting (remains, framed by, crenellated meander, dotted, point, line, double, vertical); Dionysus (crown, beard, lying down, to the left, under, vine, branch, of point) Condition of the work: the neck and the top of the painting remain; damaged surface; glued back together (2 fragments)


Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

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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.