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oinochoe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on shoulder; tabs; rosette (dot, frieze) on body (top); checkerboard (triple, framed by, fillet) on body; animal area; swan (flanked by, sphinx, confronted); wild animal (remains, 2); animal (confronted, group, 2, deer, panther, confronted, bull, lion, confronted); in field; rosette (dot, several) on body (bottom); band; fillet; radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; less the neck and the handle; gaps on the body completed in plaster; glued back on


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.