Object photograph·Csn3880·1927–1931

Hellenistic and Roman sculpture

Stone statue of a woman with a lyre, photographed against a black background on a plinth with a printed label. — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3880. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A bust-length stone statue of a woman, with her face turned to the left of the picture and her hair in rows of curls under a band. One hand is raised against the rectangular frame of a lyre beside her shoulder, and the other is held across her waist among the folds of her drapery. The statue stands on a white plinth with a printed label, against a black background.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Hellenistic and Roman sculpture.

Swedish, as on the record

Hellenistisk och Romersk skulptur.