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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on shoulder; tongues (remains); on belly (side A); Herakles and the Erymanthian boar; Herakles (beard, chiton, short, belt, scabbard, flanked by, club, brandishing); boar (above); Eurystheus (beard, in, pithos, between); Athena (helmet, aegis, chiton, holding, spear); woman (chiton, himation, fleeing) on ​​belly (side B); Dionysus and his thiase; Dionysus (beard, crown, leaf, chiton, himation, holding, kéras, between); maenad (2, chiton, himation, belt, nebrid, 1); in the field; branch (of point, bunch) under handle; plant motif (palmette, 4, lotus flower, 3) on belly (below); zone (2, between, fillet, 2); meander; lotus flower (frieze); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete - less the neck, the handles and the foot - gaps - breaks - varnish and worn highlights - 1 joined fragment glued back on side A (upper part of Athena) Restoration : glued back on - completed

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.