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Collection Online as of March 26, 2024
Fragment from Black-Figure Amphora (Storage Vessel): Musicians
c. 530–520 BCE
Location: not on view
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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.- ?-1924Ludwig Pollak, Rome, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1924-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 3627 www.beazley.ox.ac.ukBoulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 11, Plate 14,3 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1924.536