amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on belly (side A and B); painting; on belly (side A); eagle (2, flying, on either side of, snake) on belly (side B); mermaid (2, facing); in the field; rosette; lotus flower Condition of the work: incomplete; less the neck and the handles; gaps in the belly completed in plaster; glued back on; varnish partly turned red

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.

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