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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on lip; rosette (file); on basin (side A and B); comos scene (remains); comast (3, headband, beard, 1, chiton, short, belt, holding, kéras, 1, dancing); in the field; rosette (several) under handle; plant motif (palmette and lotus flower, opposite, volute) on basin (at the bottom); radiating edges (surmounted by, fillet, 3) Condition of the work: incomplete; less a part of the foot and several gaps in the basin completed in plaster; chips (lip, foot); glued back on; repainted (the right arm of one of the comasts with the kéras, four rosettes of the lip, part of the plant motif under one of the handles, the bust of one of the bearded comasts)

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.