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K20.2 MUSE WITH LYRE

Muse with Lyre | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection British Museum, London
Catalogue No. London 1917,0725.2
Beazley Archive No. 217933
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Krater, Bell
Painter Attributed to the Meleager Painter
Date ca. 400 - 380 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Muse from a painting depicting the contest of Apollo and Marsyas.

A Muse sits beside a palm tree holding a lyre. She is adorned with a stephane crown, necklace, bracelets and earrings.

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Muses

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Thumbnail Marsyas

T61.7 Marsyas