Cycladic Harpist Figurine in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2007

Marble seated harp player, ca. 2800–2700 B.C.; late Early Cycladic I–Early Cycladic II
Cycladic
Marble; H. with harp 11 1/2 in. (29.21 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1947 (47.100.1)

A male figure sits on a high-backed chair playing a stringed instrument. This work, one of the earliest of the small number of known representations of musicians, is distinguished by the sensitive modeling of the arms and hands.

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