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amphora

amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar; palmette and lotus flower (remains, chain, double) on shoulder; tabs on belly (side A); Aeneas carrying Anchises; Aeneas (remains, helmet, beard, chiton, short, holding, spear, 2, shield, carrying); Anchises (remains, chiton, himation, between); woman (2, remains, chiton, himation, fleeing) on ​​belly (side B); young man (remains, chiton, himation, holding, spear); hoplite (helmet, himation, greaves, holding, spear, shield, episema: leg); warrior (Scythian, alopekis, beard, chiton, short, belt, belt, 2, in belt, quiver); young man (headband, chiton, himation, embroidered, holding, spear, seated, on, stool) under handle; plant motif (remains, palmette, 4, lotus flower, 3) on belly (bottom); meander; lotus flower and bud; radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; less the handle B_A and the foot; half of the neck and the mouth as well as the gaps on the belly are redone in plaster; reglued; some white highlights are worn (Anchises' hair)


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.