olpe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on neck (front); garland (ivy leaf, berry) on belly; painting (remains, framed by, stylized pomegranates, line, vertical); Dionysian scene; maenad (crown, draped, dancing, surrounded by); satyr (dancing); in the field; branch (point) Condition of the work: incomplete; the mouthpiece with the start of the handle, the neck and the upper part of the painting of the belly remain

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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