amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (on rim); tongues; on collar (side A and B); palmette and lotus flower (chain, double, alternating, surmounted by, fillet) on belly (at the top); tongues on belly (at the top, side A); duel; hoplite (2, helmet, chiton, short, 1, cuirass, 1, baldric, 1, scabbard, 1, greaves, 1, holding, shield, episema, 1: bucranium, brandishing, spear, 1, falling, 1, between); woman (2, headband, chiton, himation); rider (2, chlamys, holding, reins, on, horse) on belly (at the top, side B); rider (4, remains, 1, chlamys, holding, reins, on, horse) on belly (in the middle); zone (3, separated by, fillet, 2); at the top; area (point, staggered, line, between, fillet, 2); in the middle; area of animals (buck, 3, panther, 4, lion, sphinx, 2); at the bottom; area of animals (buck, panther, 4, ram, bird) on the body (at the bottom); radiating edges (surmounted by, fillet, 2) Condition of the work: incomplete; gaps on the body (area around handle BA, panther and buck at the bottom of side A, rider and panther under handle AB) completed in plaster; chips (mouth, foot); alteration of certain white highlights; the Würzburg fragment integrated into the vase completes the right part of side A

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.