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

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

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. Vase painters depict four different kinds of lyres, or stringed musical instruments.