stamnos

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Decoration: on shoulder; tabs; chevron (line) on belly (side A); courtship scene; in the center; maenad (nude, releasing, thyrsus); on the left; satyr (nude, beard, jewel, extending, arm, towards, maenad); on the right; satyr (nude, beard, extending, arm, towards, maenad, foot, raised, placed, on, rock); in the field; bird (placed, on, rock, ?) on belly (side B); courtship scene; satyr (nude, beard, extending, arm, towards); maenad (nude, bun, releasing, thyrsus); in the field; plant flanking the handle; under the handle; plant decoration (palmette, vertical, flanked by, palmette, oblique, closed, volute) on belly (at the bottom); meander (interrupted) Condition of the work: The object is incomplete and has been partly glued back together and completed; fragments of the belly are missing; the white paint is very faded; calcareous concretions in places; the fragment with the second handle was identified after the publication of the CVA.

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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