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An item at Louvre

Decoration: interior (framing medallion); meander; in medallion; man (remains, headband, coat: animal skin, shod, holding, stick) on basin (side A and B); palaestra scene; on basin (side A); athlete (remains, 5, ?, naked, infibulated, 1, seated, 1, shield, 3, episema, 1: protome, bull, helmet, 1); in the field; javelin (2); pickaxe; strigil (?) on basin (side B); athlete (remains, leg, near); column; pedotribe (himation, stick) Condition of the work: there remain 4 non-joined fragments recomposed from several joined fragments glued together; chip in the medallion; paint chipped in places; the fragment from New York (NY 1980.30) integrated into the cup completes the arm of an athlete; Fragments Cpfr 192 A and B complete the heads of athletes.

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.