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amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar; palmette and lotus flower (chain, double) on shoulder; tongues on belly (side A); centauromachy; left; man (remains: foot); centaur (remains, beard, holding, rock, near); woman (chiton, nebrid, fleeing) on ​​belly (side B); combat scene; hoplite (2, helmet, cuirass, chiton, short, scabbard, greaves, holding, shield, spear, kneeling, 1, between); woman (2, chiton, himation) under handle; plant motif (palmette, 4, lotus flower, 3) on belly (below); lotus flower (frieze); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; gaps; breaks; salts; concretions; worn red highlights and erased white highlights (traces: female flesh, rock); reattached; completed.

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.