oinochoe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on shoulder; tabs; on belly (front); sphinx (2, facing, headband, wing, deployed, on either side of); plant motif (palmette, 3, lotus flower, 1, lotus bud, 4, crisscross) Condition of the work: incomplete; less than two fragments on the belly completed in plaster; chips on the mouthpiece and the foot; glued back on

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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