olpe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on neck (front); frieze (palmette, vertical, surrounded by, stem, point, alternating with, palmette, reversed) on belly; painting (surmounted by, lotus flower, reversed, frieze, dotted); Dionysus and his thiase; Dionysus (remains, crown, draped, to the left, holding, kantharos, branch, of point, flanked by); satyr (crouching, carrying, on, back); maenad (headband, draped); in the background; goat (to the right) Condition of the work: incomplete; the mouthpiece and part of the belly remain with most of the painting; glued back; a fragment

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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