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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on basin (side A and B); Herakles and the Nemean lion; Herakles (remains, naked, suffocating); lion (remains); in the background; quiver (suspended); in the field; branch (point) flanking the handle; palmette Condition of the work: incomplete; glued back and redone; less the foot, the handles and a large part of the basin

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.