amphora

amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar (side A and B); palmette and lotus flower (remains, chain, double, alternating) on ​​belly (top); tongues on belly (top, side A); Herakles and the Lernaean Hydra; left; Athena (helmet, chiton, himation, holding, spear, crown, near); Herakles (leonteus, chiton, runs, quiver, holding, bow, shooting, arrow, on); hydra; right; woman (4, remains, chiton, embroidered) on belly (top, side B); horse racing; rider (4, remains, naked, holding, reins, on, horse) on belly (middle); animal area (3, surmounted by, dot, staggered, between, net, 3); top; area (remains, mermaid, 1, ram, 3, sphinx, 2, panther, 2, lion); middle; area (remains, mermaid, 2, panther, 2, ram, 2); bottom; area (remains, boar, panther, 3, eagle, ram) on belly (bottom); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; less a large part of the belly - gaps; breaks; very worn surface; highlights erased; reglued; completed; redone

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.