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amphora

amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar (side A and B); palmette and lotus flower (chain, double) on shoulder; tongues on belly (side A); amazonomachy; hoplite (remains, helmet, headband, beard, cuirass, holding, shield, brandishing, spear, attacking); amazon (remains, helmet, shield, sagging); left; amazon (remains, helmet) on belly (side B); Dionysus and his thiase; Dionysus (remains, beard, crown, himation, holding, kéras, standing, in front); satyr (remains: beard); in the field; branch (of point) under handle; plant motif (remains, palmette) Condition of the work: only the collar, the handles and the shoulder remain; glued back on

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.