olpe

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Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on neck (front); frieze (palmette, reversed, pointed, alternating with, lotus flower, stylized) on belly; painting (surmounted by, meander); Athena and Enceladus; Athena (helmet, aegis, holding, spear, shield, round, episema, in the shape of, dolphin, 2, walking, to the left, attacking); Enceladus (helmet, breastplate, greaves, thighs, sword, holding, spear, shield, round, episema, in the shape of, tripod, sagging, to the right) Condition of the work: incomplete; less the handle, part of the neck, parts of the belly and the foot; glued back together (several fragments); in two fragments

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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