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An item at Louvre

Decoration: woman (head, hair, headband, wavy, earring, necklace) Condition of the work: The polychromy is well preserved; the halo and the base, formerly redone, have been dismantled.


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.