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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece; rosette (leaf, elongated); on body (at the top); leaf (elongated, area) on body; animal area; griffin (2, facing, on either side of, bird, flying); in the center; plant decoration (palmette, from, lotus flower, stylized, reversed); in the field; rosette (several); stain on background; rosette (leaf, elongated) Condition of the work: incomplete; less fragments of the body completed in plaster

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.