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Bronze Statuette of a Siren in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017

Bronze Statuette of a Siren in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017
Bronze statuette of a siren

Period:Archaic

Date:ca. 500 B.C.

Culture:South Italian or Etruscan

Medium:Bronze

Dimensions:Overall: 3 3/16 x 1 3/8 x 2 5/8 in. (8.1 x 3.5 x 6.7 cm)

Classification:Bronzes

Credit Line:Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. Gift and Rogers Fund, 1996

Accession Number:1996.42

The siren wears a diadem embellished with flowers. She originally may have stood on the lid of a vase.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/256250

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