oinochoe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece; tongues (degenerate) on neck; bird (posed, on, rock, ?) flanking the handle (at the top); volute (floral) on body (at the top); oves and darts (file) on body (in front); head (woman, in profile, to the left, chignon, cecryphal, earring, necklace) flanking the handle (at the bottom); under handle; vegetal decoration (palmette, reversed, flanked by, volute, floral) Condition of the work: incomplete; less a fragment of the mouthpiece; white paint almost entirely erased; blackish deposit in places Restoration: repainted (paint superimposed on bird and face)

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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