amphora

amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on belly (top); tabs; on belly (top, side A and B); horse race; rider (7, remains, nude, holding, reins, on, horse, flanked by); dog (2); hare (remains); on belly (middle); animal area (2); top; area (remains, mermaid, 2, on either side of, lotus flower, swan, 2, boar, 1, lion, 2); bottom; area (remains, panther, between, goat, 2, boar, 1, between, panther, 2) on belly (bottom); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; less the neck and a large part of the belly; gaps filled in plaster; glued back on; The vase is completed by the 11 fragments NY 1989.109.2, property of the Metropolitan Museum of New York (1989); 6 frags in a box.

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.