alabaster

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on belly (at the top); leaf (elongated, area); on belly; rooster (2, facing, neck, squared, on either side of); plant decoration (palmette, on, lotus flower, reversed); in the field; rosette (incised, several) on background; rosette (leaf, elongated) Condition of the work: incomplete; less mouthpiece

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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