Siren with a Kithara from a Grave Monument

2nd half 4th century BCE (Classical-early Hellenistic)

17.5 cm 21.6 cm 5.7 cm

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This expressive figure of a mournful siren playing the kithara, a musical instrument like a lyre, originally crowned a funerary monument. Sirens were mythical creatures that were part-woman, part-bird, who, while best known as temptresses, also used their powers of song to pra...

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Moise Emanuelides, Athens, 1923 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, New York, 1923, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P793]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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