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amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar; palmette and lotus flower (chain, double) on shoulder; tongues (remains) on belly (side A); Athena (helmet, headband, aegis, chiton, holding, reins, on); quadriga (horse, 4, harness) on belly (side B); Dionysian scene (remains); Dionysus (remains, crown: leaf, beard, chiton, between); satyr (2, remains, naked, beard); in the field; branch (cluster) on belly (at the bottom); zone (2, between, fillet); lotus flower (frieze); radiating edges (remains) Condition of the work: there remain 18 fragments of the mouthpiece, the neck and the body-15 are joined together and complete the neck, the mouthpiece and the top of the body-3 non-joined fragments belong to side B-breaks-gaps-white highlights erased Restoration: glued back together-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.