


olpe
An item at Louvre
Decoration: on belly; painting (remains, topped with, point, line, double); Dionysus and his thiase; Dionysus (beard, draped, to the right, holding, kéras, surrounded by); satyr (dancing, to the left, returning, head); maenad (headband, dancing, to the right, returning, head); in the field; branch (of point) Condition of the work: remains of the mouthpiece with the neck and most of the painting of the belly (5 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.