olpe

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Decoration: on neck (front); frieze (palmette, horizontal, surrounded by, stem, point) on belly; painting (framed by, meander, point, staggered, line, vertical); Dionysian scene; satyr (walking, to the right, near); maenad (crown, peplos, nebrid, holding, thyrsus, walking, to the right, returning, head); in the field; branch (of point) Condition of the work: incomplete; less part of the handle and the belly; glued back on; a fragment of the lower part detached

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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