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| Keywords: Greek - Siren with a Kithara from a Grave Monument - Walters 233.jpg This expressive figure of a mournful siren playing the kithara a musical instrument like a lyre originally crowned a funerary monument Sirens were mythical creatures that were part-woman part-bird who while best known as temptresses also used their powers of song to praise men of great fame and thus appear frequently on funerary monuments of the 4th century 2nd half 4th century BC Classical Pentelic marble cm 21 6 17 5 5 7 ; Mount cm 11 3 9 5 9 5 ; H including base cm 33 8 accession number 23 3 31125 Joseph Brummer New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1924 The Odyssey and Ancient Art Edith C Blum Art Institute Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson 1991-1992 Ulisse Il mito e la memoria Ulysses The Myth and Memory Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome 1996 Ulysses Myth and Memory Haus der Kunst Munich 1999-2000 Things With Wings Mythological Figures in Ancient Greek Art The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2005-2006 Things With Wings Mythological Figures in Ancient Greek Art Ward Museum Salisbury 2009 Heroes Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art San Diego; Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation USA New York 2009-2011 place of origin Athens Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Art from Greece Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
