olpe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard (remains); on neck (front); palmette (2, reversed, framed by, lotus bud, stylized, point) on belly; painting (framed by, meander, point, line, vertical); woman (hair, long, headband, draped, to the right, raising, arm, lifting, himation); in the field; branch (of point) Condition of the work: incomplete; less part of the mouthpiece, the handle and the foot; varnish very chipped; glued back on

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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