amphora

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Decoration: on collar; palmette and lotus flower (chain, double) on shoulder; tongues on belly (side A); Herakles and the Erymanthian boar; Herakles (remains, beard, cuirass, chiton, short, carrying, boar, above); Eurystheus (in, pithos, raising, arm, between); Iolaos (remains, beard, chiton, short, baldric, scabbard, holding, club); Athena (remains, helmet, peplos, embroidered, himation, holding, shield, spear); right; Hermes (remains, himation, boot, winged, holding, staff); in field; quiver on belly (side B); assembly of gods; apotheosis of Herakles; Herakles (remains, beard, leonte, chiton, short, scabbard, baldric, holding, club, led by); Athena (remains, helmet, peplos, embroidered, holding, spear, shield); Hermes (remains, petasus, beard, chiton, short, himation, boot, winged, holding, caduceus, walking, towards); Poseidon (remains, beard, chiton, himation, holding, fish, trident) under handle; plant motif (remains, diamond, palmette, 4, lotus flower, 3); on body (at the bottom); meander; lotus flower (frieze); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; less the handles, the bottom of the body and the foot; numerous gaps filled in plaster; glued back; chips (mouthpiece)

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

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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.

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