olpe

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Decoration: on collar (front); meander; on belly; painting (surmounted by, stylized pomegranates, line); Dionysian scene; Dionysus (crown, beard, draped, to the right, holding, kantharos, branch, point, near); satyr (playing, aulos, dancing, crouching, to the right, near); Oenopion (?, chiton, belt, himation, walking, to the right, returning, head) Condition of the work: incomplete; less the mouthpiece and fragment of the belly; glued back; completed

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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