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An item at Louvre

Decoration: Silenus (head, bald, diadem, beard); background (in nimbus: bunch of grapes, rosette, ivy leaf) Condition of the work: incomplete; less a part at the bottom at the back; less the nose and part of the rosette at the top; part of the joint cover with its handle is preserved; carbonized black surface Restoration: formerly completed then unrestored (nose and the rosette at the top and a part at the bottom at the back); repainted (in black around the restorations and in the torn off parts); remains of the white plaster around the unrestorations

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

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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