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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on neck (front); ivy leaf (garland) on belly; painting (surmounted by, meander); maenad (draped, raising, arm, lifting, dress, rising, ?, on); bull (walking, to the right, head, from the front); in the background; tree (branch, from point) Condition of the work: incomplete; less the handle, part of the neck and the belly; half of the belly and in a box, 3 fragments, including the mouthpiece.

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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