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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on neck (front); meander on belly; painting (remains, topped with, stylized pomegranates, line, double); maenad (headband, draped, returning, head, to the left, riding, holding, bull, horn, remains, to the right); to the left; object (?); in the field; branch without leaves Condition of the work: the mouthpiece, the neck and the upper part of the painting remain


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.