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Source Description
Two musicians appear on this amphora fragment. The first, long-haired and bearded, holds an instrument that is mostly lost, but with a curving arm that identifies it as a lyre, probably of the standard (<em>chelys, </em>or tortoiseshell) type. His bearded companion, with curly hair and an ornate robe, plays a concert kithara, a more elaborate seven-stringed instrument.
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Document identity
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106467
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Fragment from Black-Figure Amphora (Storage Vessel): Musicians
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106467
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object
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Fragment from Black-Figure Amphora (Storage Vessel): Musicians
description
Two musicians appear on this amphora fragment. The first, long-haired and bearded, holds an instrument that is mostly lost, but with a curving arm that identifies it as a lyre, probably of the standard (<em>chelys, </em>or tortoiseshell) type. His bearded companion, with curly hair and an ornate robe, plays a concert kithara, a more elaborate seven-stringed instrument.
date
c. 530–520 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79893098
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
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Greek, Attic
accession
1924.536
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ceramic
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Fragment from Black-Figure Amphora (Storage Vessel): Musicians, c. 530–520 BCE. Greek, Attic. Ceramic; overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1924.536
collection
GR - Greek
didYouKnow
Vase painters depict four different kinds of lyres, or stringed musical instruments.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 3627
citation
Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg.<em> Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
page_number
p. 11, Plate 14,3
creditline
Gift of J. H. Wade
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2026-05-29 05:43:39.995000
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106467
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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ceramic
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