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Called Siren of Canosa.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Called Siren of Canosa.
Description
English: Statuette of a Siren, represented with legs, wings and a bird's tail, carrying a zither, and rising her right arm over her head (a typical moaning sign). It had a funerary and psychopomp condition.
Español: Estatuilla de una sirena, representada con patas, alas y cola de ave, portando una cítara, y elevando el brazo derecho sobre la cabeza, en un típico gesto de lamentación. Tenía un carácter funerario y de sicopompo.
Date between 320 and 300 BC
Medium polychrome terracotta
Dimensions height: 39.8 cm (15.6 in); width: 17 cm (6.6 in); depth: 15.7 cm (6.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,39.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,17U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,15.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1352282
Current location
room 16
Accession number
2004/95/1
Object history place of creation: Canosa (Magna Graecia)
References Museum's website – Web del museo – Site du musée
Source/Photographer Photograph: Luis García (Zaqarbal), 12 March 2008.
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Camera location40° 25′ 24.55″ N, 3° 41′ 20.61″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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The Siren of Canosa, statuette exposing psychopomp characteristics, late 4th century BC

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40°25'24.553"N, 3°41'20.605"W

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