
olpe
An item at Louvre
Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on neck (front); garland (ivy leaf, berry) on belly; painting (remains, framed by, meander, point, staggered, line, vertical); left; satyr (remains, torso, facing); Herakles (remains, beard, lion, club, on, shoulder); in the field; branch (of point) Condition of the work: incomplete; the mouthpiece remains, except for a small piece and some chips, the neck and the top of the painting of the belly; diagonal crack
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.