olpe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on mouthpiece (front); checkerboard; on neck (front); meander on belly; painting (remains, topped with, stylized pomegranates, line); Dionysian scene; Dionysus (remains, crown, leaf, chiton, himation, holding, keras, to the left, near); maenad (remains, hand); in the field; branch (of point) Condition of the work: incomplete; a fragment of the mouthpiece remains with part of the neck and the upper right part of the painting; 3 fragments in a box

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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