Mourning siren

Classification

statuette ; sculpture / statue

Culture

Graeco-Egyptian (culture); Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 28.9 cm

Date

200–150 B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)

Material

clay

Iconography

siren

Findspot

Alexandria?

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.469

ID

Hyp-783

Condition

Damage to base, restored. Upper edge of right wing broken off and lost, now restored.

References

Oroszlán 1930, 65, no. D 20, fig.; Szilágyi, J. Gy., in MTA I. Oszt. Közl. 10 (1957), 425, fig. 2; Szilágyi J. Gy. 1988a, 111–113, fig. 106; Török 1995, 105, no. 141; Agócs, HWA 2013 Autumn; Agócs, in Ókor 12/3 (2013), 86–87, fig. 4

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