amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on belly (top); tongues; on belly (top, side A); duel (remains); hoplite (remains, helmet, chiton, short, greave, holding, shield, brandishing, spear, attacked by); hoplite (remains, greave, between); woman (6, chiton, himation) on belly (top, side B); comos scene; woman (chiton, short, dancing, between); comaste (4, remains, beard, jersey, 2, dancing) on belly (middle); animal area (2, remains, topped with, net, separated by, net); top; area (panther, 3, rooster, 2, mermaid, 3, confronted, 2, ibex, ram); in field; rosette; bottom; area (ibex, 2, panther, 3, swan) on belly (bottom); radiating edges (remains, topped with, fillet) Condition of the work: incomplete; less the neck, the handles and the foot; gaps (hoplites of side A, upper part of the left comasti, legs and back of the head of the right comasti, panther and ram of the upper zone, ibex and panther of the lower zone, the entire bottom of the belly) completed in plaster; glued back

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.