pithos

An item at Louvre

Decoration: relief decoration; on shoulder; cord; area (archs, reversed, crossed, surmounted by, circle, dotted) on body (at the top); figurative area (metope, several, repeated motif); sphinx (towards the right) on body (at the bottom); area (chevrons, between); cord (2) Condition of the work: whole; several cracks and breaks; small gaps on the cords Restoration: reattached (several fragments of the shoulder and the mouthpiece)

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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