crater

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece; lotus bud (frieze); on rim; garland (ivy leaf) on plaquette; plant motif (palmette, flanked by, volute) on basin (side A); painting (framed by, tabs, garland: ivy leaf); assembly of gods (seated, on, stool); Apollo (headband, himation, half-draped, playing, cithara); Dionysus and Ariadne; Ariadne (headband, chiton, himation, near); Dionysus (crown, beard, himation, holding, kéras); Hermes (petasus, beard, boot, with wings, holding, staff); in the field; branch (of point) on basin (side B); painting; Dionysian scene (remains); Dionysus (remains, seated, on, stool, surrounded by); satyr (2, remains, dancing); in the field; branch (point) on basin (bottom); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; minus one handle and part of the other; minus fragments of the mouthpiece and several fragments of the body completed in plaster

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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