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

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

c. 530–520 BCE
Overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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.
  • ?-1924
    Ludwig Pollak, Rome, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1924-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 3627 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Boulter, 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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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1924.536