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Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Greek
Creator Dates/Places: Greece
Creator Active Place: Greece
Creator Name-CRT: Greece, Corinth, presumably of Corinthian or Argive origin
Title: Mirror Support: Siren
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: -47
Creation End Date: -47
Creation Date: c. 475 BC
Object Type: Sculpture
Materials and Techniques: bronze with silver inlays
Dimensions: Overall: 11.5cm x 9cm
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1967.204
Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Context: This is a bronze of exceptional quality. When complete it had a cylindrical handle, probably of painted ivory. The reflecting disk was probably of silver, as are the boss inlays. The intact mirror was obviously an object of great luxury. Sirens (part bird and part woman) were sea-songstresses whose captivating voices drew sailors off course to their deaths. Sirens also accompanied the dead on their voyage to the underworld. The idea was probably imported from Egypt where human-headed ba birds embodies a deceased person's spirit. Another siren figure appears on the Little Master Band Cup.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1967.204
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights:
Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art
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