oinochoe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on neck; palmette (pointed, topped by, fleuron, flanked by, line, wavy, vertical, framed by, net) on body (at the top); tongues (degenerate) on body (in front); head (woman, in profile, towards the left, chignon, cecryphal, earring, necklace); in the field; patera flanking the handle; under the handle; vegetal decoration (palmette, reversed, flanked by, volute, cornet) Condition of the work: intact; some brownish concretions on the body

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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