pelike

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on belly (side A and B); painting (framed by, palmette, horizontal, frieze, stylized pomegranates); on belly (side A); Dionysian scene (remains); Dionysus (crown: leaf, crobylos, beard, chiton, himation, holding, cantharus, branch of leaves, between); maenad (2, sakkos, chiton, himation, holding, panther, 1, object, 1, thyrsus, 1, rattlesnake, 1) on belly (side B); musical competition; young man (remains, crown: leaf, himation, holding, stick); musician (remains, crown: leaf, playing, lyre) Condition of the work: incomplete; there remains a part of the upper part of the pelike composed of 2 non-joining fragments Restoration: glued back together; redone

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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