olpe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on neck (front); meander on belly; painting (framed by, stylized grenades, file); quadriga (to the right, led by, charioteer, beard, tunic, belt, nebrid, ?, holding, reins); in the background; maenad (headband, draped, playing, rattlesnake, walking, to the right, returning, head); in the field; branch (of point, bunch) Condition of the work: incomplete; less the handle with part of the mouthpiece and neck as well as fragments of the belly; the foot is detached, in a box: the top of the belly and 6 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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