Fragment from Black-Figure Amphora (Storage Vessel): Musicians

c. 530–520 BCE
Overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
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Vase painters depict four different kinds of lyres, or stringed musical instruments.

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 (chelys, or tortoiseshell) type. His bearded companion, with curly hair and an ornate robe, plays a concert kithara, a more elaborate seven-stringed instrument.
Fragment from Black-Figure Amphora (Storage Vessel): Musicians

Fragment from Black-Figure Amphora (Storage Vessel): Musicians

c. 530–520 BCE

Greek, Attic

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