Siren with a Kithara from a Grave Monument
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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31125
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sculpture
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normalized
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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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CC0
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en
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1
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_23.3_Fnt_TR_T99III.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_23.3_Fnt_TR_T99III.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_23.3_Fnt_TR_T99III.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/23.3 |
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