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amphora

amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on belly (side A); Herakles and the Nemean lion; Herakles (remains, beardless, kneeling, suffocating); lion (between); Iolaos (?, remains: foot); Athena (remains, chiton) on belly (side B); Apollo (chiton, himation, playing, cithara, between); column (2, surmounted by, crow, flanked by); fawn; doe on belly (at the bottom); zone (2, between, fillet); lotus flower (frieze); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete - only part of the belly and the foot remain - breaks - gaps - numerous concretions - 1 fragment reattached to side A and completed Apollo Restoration: reattached

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.