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An item at Louvre

Decoration: on crowning; palmette (4, remains); posts (remains) on all sides (top); dentil face A; Leto (diadem, himation, forming, veil, peplos, leaning on, scepter, standing, in front); Apollo (holding, cithara, seated) face B; Amymone (peplos, holding, oenochoe, in front); Poseidon (half-naked, himation, holding, scepter) face C; satyr (?, naked, supporting); Dionysus (?, naked, drunk, embraced by); maenad face D; young girl (crowned); trophy (helmet, crest, shield, cuirass, on, pebble, several) on all sides (bottom); oves; spearhead Condition of the work: worn surface

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.