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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on neck (front); frieze (remains, palmette, reversed, pointed); on belly; painting (surmounted by, stylized pomegranates, line); character (remains, skull, headband, in front of); woman (remains, head, headband, sakkos, pleated, to the right); in the field; branch (point) Condition of the work: only a fragment of the neck and the belly remains with the upper part of the painting


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.