olpe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on collar (front); ivy leaf (garland) on belly; painting (surmounted by, meander); Dionysian scene; Silenus (dancing, to the left, returning, head, near); maenad (bandeau, dancing, to the right, returning, head); in the field; point Condition of the work: incomplete; less fragment of the belly; chipped varnish especially on the bottom of the belly

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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