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oinochoe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on the belly (at the top); tongues (surmounting, chevron, line) on the belly; maenad (head, loop, pursued by, satyr) Condition of the work: The vase is incomplete; there remains a fragment of the top joined with a large fragment of the belly; the white paint is partly erased.


Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

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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.