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O21.7 SIREN

Siren | Attic black figure vase painting

DETAILS
Museum Collection	British Museum, London
Catalogue No.	London 1971,1101.1
Beazley Archive No.	350099
Ware	Attic Black Figure
Shape	Dinos
Painter	Signed by Sophilos
Date	ca. 580 - 570 B.C.
Period	Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Detail of a Siren from a painting depicting a procession of beasts.

The Siren has the head of a woman and the body of a bird. Her hair is braided and tied back with ribbons, her wings are curled and her tail fanned. She stands in a row of beasts which include a boar, stag, lion, leopard and ram.