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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on shoulder; tongues (degenerate) on belly (front); head (woman, in profile, diadem, aigrette, chignon, cecryphal, embroidered); left; plant decoration (half-palmette, volute, flowery) Condition of the work: The vase is intact; chips and flaking; abundant concretions; a crack on the belly; the white and yellow paint is almost entirely 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.