Bearded man, woman with lyre'

Title
Bearded man, woman with lyre'
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Odysseus and Penelope? Votive-plaque Relief Terracotta 622
Creator
unknown
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
unknown Ancient Greek (artist)
Description
Terracotta relief plaque ('Melian relief'): a man with a female lyre-player; he grasps the lyre (barbiton) as though demanding her attention. --The British Museum Burn, Lucilla; Higgins, Reynold; Walters, H B; Bailey, D M, Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1903
View
Front
Coverage
Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (creation) Mílos, Nísos, Aegean Islands, Greece (discovery)
Temporal
ca. 480-460 BCE
Subject
Books 13-18 Odyssey II
Style Period
Classical Melian (Aegean style)
Work Type
reliefs (sculptures)
Date
-0480/-0460
Identifier
Lowenstam_VRC_02340
Item Locator
Box 6, Section 12
Rights
In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder
University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Local Collection Name
Steven Lowenstam Collection
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Measurements
Height: 17 cm
Material
terracotta | relief; moulded
Set
Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Primary Set
Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Institution
University of Oregon
Id Current Repository
1842,0728.1132