cut

An item at Louvre

Decoration: interior (in medallion); character (remains, Athena, ?, helmet, spear, seated, on, stool) on basin (side A and B); eye (prophylactic, remains, flanked by); palmette (remains, on, stem) on basin (side A); Hyacinthos (remains, crown, himation, riding); swan (remains, head, neck, tail) Condition of the work: Cp 11217 is composed of 3 joined fragments glued together (eye, palmette and back of the young man), it is completed by the fragment Erlangen 469 which gives the rest of the young man; gaps filled with plaster; Cp 11218 is an isolated fragment which gives a prophylactic eye.

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.

Louvre