Ibex Head Lyre Fragment

ca. 1375-1100 BCE (New Kingdom)

5.6 cm 14.8 cm 2.6 cm

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This carved wooden ibex head once decorated a lyre, a stringed instrument like a small harp that was adapted from Near Eastern cultures during the New Kingdom.The head of an ibex is depicted emerging from an open lotus flower. Between the curved horns of the ibex is a projecti...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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