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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece; checkerboard; on neck; frieze (palmette, vertical, pointed, surrounded by, stem) on belly (front); Hermes (beard, petasus, chiton, himation, boot, with wings, holding, caduceus, riding, ram, to the right) under handle; near the handle; branch (point, fruit) Condition of the work: incomplete; less the handle, half of the foot and several fragments of the belly; glued back on; two small fragments not integrated

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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