Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment from Black-Figure Amphora (Storage Vessel): Musicians
- Date
- c. 530–520 BCE
- Medium
- ceramic
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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.
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