amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on belly (side A and B); painting (surmounted by, tongues) on belly (side A); Dionysus and his thiase; Dionysus (beard, chiton, himation, holding, bunch, surrounded by); satyr (2, ithyphallic); maenad (2, headband, chiton, dancing) on ​​belly (side B); ephebe (2, draped, faced, flanked by); sphinx (headband, surmounting, lotus flower) on belly (at the bottom); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; only the belly with half of a handle remains; glued back on

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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