olpe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on belly (front); Hermes (petasus, beard, chiton, short, decorated with, circle, of point, himation, with band, decorated with, point, running, to the right, returning, head, carrying, on, shoulder, goat) under handle; vegetal decoration (stem, long, curved, ending with, lotus bud, framing); lozenge (curvilinear, containing, crosspiece, flanked by, crosspiece) Condition of the work: incomplete; numerous gaps (part of the mouth on the left and large fragments of belly); one fragment not joined; glued back together; in 7 fragments

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

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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