Detail of a kithara on a stone sphinx

Unknown (Greek)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

555-550 BCE

Height:

10.0 cm  (3 15/16 in.)

Height of the kithara

Technique / Medium:

stone

Place of creation:

Ellás

Description

Depiction of a "cylinder kithara."

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940]

Bibliographic references

Lawergren, Bo. "The cylinder kithara in Etruria, Greece, and Anatolia", Imago musicae: International yearbook of musical iconography 1 (1984) 147-174, fig. 9. RILM 1984-07037.

RIdIM record id

4808