antefix

An item at Louvre

Decoration: woman (head, hair, wavy) Condition of the work: The work is incomplete, the bottom of the hair and the antefix, the nose and the chin are missing; numerous chips on the surface; very poorly preserved polychromy; beginning of the joint cover preserved. The nose and the chin, formerly remade, have been dismantled.

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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