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amphora

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar; palmette and lotus flower (remains, chain, double, alternating) on ​​shoulder; tabs on belly (at the top); comos scene; comaste (remains, 4, beard, 3, dwarf, ?, 1, dancing) Condition of the work: only part of the collar and shoulder remains, composed of two joined fragments glued together

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.