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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on collar (front); garland (ivy leaf, berry) on belly; painting (framed with, point, row, double, vertical); Dionysian scene; maenad (2, headband, chignon, draped, dancing); in the field; branch (point) Condition of the work: incomplete; chipped varnish; a fragment of the mouthpiece and the top of the belly without the handle; another fragment of part of the border of the painting

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.