amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar; palmette and lotus flower (chain, double) on shoulder; tongues (remains) on belly (side A); Herakles and Cerberus; Herakles (beard, lion, belt, chiton, short, baldric, scabbard, quiver: arrow, holding, club, leash, of); Cerberus (head, 2, necklace); on the right; Hermes (remains, petasus, chiton, short, chlamys, boot, with wings, holding, caduceus); in the background; Athena (helmet, headband, aegis, peplos, embroidered, holding, spear) on belly (side B); Theseus and the Minotaur; Theseus (remains, cuirass, chiton, short, embroidered, scabbard, attacking); Minotaur (remains, between); Hermes (petasus, beard, chiton, short, himation, boot, with wing); woman (remains, headband, chiton, himation) under handle; plant motif (dot, palmette, 4, lotus flower, 3) on belly (at the bottom); lotus flower and bud (frieze); radiating edges Condition of the work: incomplete; less one handle redone in plaster; gaps filled in plaster; glued back; concretions

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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