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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on belly; painting (surmounted by, stylized pomegranates, line); Dionysian scene; satyr (wrist, decorated with, strip, ithyphallic, pursuer); maenad (headband, chignon, draped, fleeing, to the right, returning, head); in the field; branch (of point) Condition of the work: incomplete; less the mouthpiece, the neck, the handle and part of the belly; chipped varnish


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.