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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar; palmette (alternating, frieze); on shoulder; tongues on belly (side A and B); charioteer (beard, xystis, belt, holding, lance, reins, driving); quadriga (horse, 4, harness, three-quarter view) under handle; hoplite (helmet, headband, beard, cuirass, chiton, short, greaves, baldric, scabbard, holding, lance, 2, shield, episema: circle, 1, bucranium, 1, crouching) on ​​belly (at the bottom); point (staggered, file); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; less one handle; gaps (especially side B); breaks; concretions (foot, mouthpiece); highlights erased (matte traces: episemas, harnesses) Restoration: glued back on-repainted-completed-redone (side B)

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.