Relief sculpture of kithara player

Unknown (Hittite)


Item type:
sculpture
Date of creation:
ca. 700 BCE
Technique / Medium:
stone
Place of creation:
Karatepe (Osmaniye, Türkiye)

    Item location

  • Karatepe-Aslantaş Açık Hava Müzesi

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940]

Image URLs

image link 1
Wikimedia Commons image of four musicians (kithara second from the right)
image link 2
image of the kithara is included in the gallery

Bibliographic references

Lawergren, Bo. "The cylinder kithara in Etruria, Greece, and Anatolia", Imago musicae: International yearbook of musical iconography 1 (1984) 147-174, fig. 14. RILM 1984-07037.

RIdIM record id

4829