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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on basin (interior); medallion (palmette, 4, forming, diamond, surrounded by); circle (hatching, concentric) Condition of the work: the vase is incomplete; the handles and the mid-section are missing. One handle and two chips on the foot have been completed and one handle has been glued back on.

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.