Limestone bust of a lyre-player

Unknown (Cypriot)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

ca. 575–550 BCE

Height:

45.7 cm  (18 in.)

Width:

22.9 cm  (9 in.)

Depth:

29.8 cm  (11 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

limestone

Place of creation:

Cyprus

Iconclass

48C7321
lyre, cithara, psaltery

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Lawergren, Bo. "The cylinder kithara in Etruria, Greece, and Anatolia", Imago musicae: International yearbook of musical iconography 1 (1984) 147-174, fig. 2. RILM 1984-07037.

RIdIM record id

4773