olpe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard on neck (front); frieze (palmette, reversed, pointed, alternating with, lotus flower, stylized) on belly; painting (surmounted by, stylized pomegranates, line); maenad (headband, draped, holding, rattlesnake, returning, head, seated, on, bull, to the right); in the field; branch (point) Condition of the work: incomplete - less large part of the belly with the foot; glued back (several 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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