amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar (side A and B); palmette and lotus flower (chain, double, alternating) on shoulder; tongues on belly (side A); comos scene; comaste (6, remains, 1, headband, 1, beard, 3, necklace, 5, nude, dancing, holding, rattlesnake, 1) on belly (side B); duel (?); pyrrhic (?); hoplite (2, helmet, headband, greaves, 1, nude, holding, spear, shield, indented, 1, round, 1: episema, point, serpent, in relief, fighting, between); man (2, remains, 1, headband, beard, 1, chiton, embroidered, 1, himation, embroidered, holding, spear, 1) on belly (bottom); zone (2, topped with, net, 2); lotus flower and bud (frieze); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; less the foot; chips (lip, handles); glued back together (belly); gaps (head of the first comast, right arm of the second comast, area near the left foot of the fourth comast) completed in plaster; two fragments completing the left arm of the second hoplite as well as the head and torso of the man behind him were not integrated into the vase.

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.