amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar (side B); palmette and lotus flower (remains, chain, double, alternating) on belly (top); tongues (remains) on belly (top, side A); Herakles and the Amazons; Herakles (remains, beard, lion, sword, grasping); Amazon (helmet, chiton, embroidered, belt, shield, kneeling); left; hoplite (remains, chiton, short, shield, fighter); Amazon (remains: leg); right; hoplite (helmet, cuirass, chiton, short, greave, shield, brandishing, spear, attacking); Amazon (remains, helmet, chiton, short, scabbard, greave, shield, episema: bull: head, holding, spear, above) Amazon (helmet, chiton, short, lying down) on belly (top, side B); comos scene; comaste (3, remains, beard, 1, nude, dancing); woman (3, remains, chiton, short, dancing) on belly (in the middle); palmette and lotus flower (remains, chain, double, alternating, surmounted by); point (in staggered row, file) on belly (in the middle); animal zone (2); at the top; zone (remains, panther, 3, ram, 2); at the bottom; zone (remains, swan, panther, 3, ram, goat, 2) on belly (at the bottom); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; less the handles; gaps filled in plaster; glued back together; chips

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.