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Hydria (water jar) decorated with a Siren
Greece Late Classical Period, ca. 400–325 BCE Bronze H: 44 cm Gift of Tillie Goldman, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum Accession number: 83.30.19 |
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The Sirens, mythological half-women, half-birds, lived on an island and lured passing
ships toward its rocky coast with their singing. Images of Sirens were often placed on
top of funerary monuments as symbolic guardians of the tomb. This expensive bronze
hydria, decorated with a Siren, was presumably a cinerary urn. Digital presentation of this object was made possible by: The Ridgefield Foundation, New York, in memory of Henry J. and Erna D. Leir |
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