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amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on neck (side A and B); palmette and lotus flower (frieze); tongues on belly (side A and B); painting on belly (side A); Athena (helmet: crest, chiton, belt, aegis, holding, shield, episema: star, brandishing, spear); left and right; column (surmounted by); rooster on belly (side B); boxing scene; pugilist (2, nude, cestus, fighting); pedotribe (himation, holding, wand: leaf); left; column Condition of the work: incomplete; less some fragments (Athena) completed in plaster; surface very damaged

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.