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An item at Louvre

Decoration: interior (framing medallion); meander (interrupted); in medallion; comaste (crown: leaf, nude, himation, holding, stick, skyphos, walking) on ​​basin (side A and B); palaestra scene; on basin (side A); wrestling scene; wrestler (2, remains, nude, wrestling); pedotribe (headband, beard, himation, leaning on, stick, holding, wand); in the field; dumbbell (2); athlete's pack (strigil) on basin (side B); athlete (2, remains, headband, nude, 1, on either side of); young man (headband, himation, leaning on, stick); in the field; discus bag Condition of the work: only part of the basin with a handle remains, recomposed from several joined fragments glued together, plus two non-joined fragments; the joined fragment RS 450 completes the medallion (posterior part of the comast with left hand, staff and himation); damaged surface; chips; in a box 3 fragments and piece of plaster

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.