lyre

(noun)

A hand-held stringed instrument resembling a small harp.

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  • Babylon and Assyria
  • mixed-media
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  • terra cotta
  • cylinder seal
  • high relief
  • colossal
  • lost wax
  • hieratic scale
  • register
  • relief
  • nomadic
  • votive

Examples of lyre in the following topics:

  • Sculpture in Mesopotamia

    • Another sculpture of note is a mixed-media bull's head that once adorned a ceremonial lyre found in Puabi's tomb in Ur.
    • Although much of the lyre, whose dominant material was wood, disintegrated over time, contemporaneous imagery depicts lyres with similar decoration.
    • Scholars believe that lyres were used in burial ceremonies and that the music that was played held religious significance.
    • This lyre was found in the tomb of queen Pu-Abi.
    • A lyre of the same type is shown on the Standard of Ur.
  • The Julio-Claudians

    • He is remembered for his obsession with his own popularity among the masses, public performances on the lyre, reciting poetry, acting, or participating in sporting events—all activities considered scandalous behavior for an emperor .
  • Ceramics in the Greek Early Classical Period

    • Muse with Lyre.
  • Early Jewish Art

    • Near him are lion cubs, a giraffe and a snake listening to him playing a lyre.
  • Anglo-Saxon and Irish Art

    • La Tène is a highly stylized curvilinear art based mainly on classical vegetable and foliage motifs such as leafy palmette forms, vines, tendrils, and lotus flowers together with spirals, S-scrolls, lyre, and trumpet shapes.
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