Bronze Bowl with Musicians

Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE

Drawing of interior of bowl with scene of seated woman and three female musicians playing a double pipe, lyre, and a frame drum or cymbals, and several women holding hands and dancing. — Bronze bowl with musicians, Cyprus, late 9th or early 8th century BCE. The engraved scene shows musicians and dancers. In this bronze bowl, five inches in diameter, three female musicians are playing, respectively, a double pipe, a lyre, and a frame drum or cymbals in the presence of a seated female (perhaps a goddess) while several women, holding hands, dance or move in procession before her.

Bronze bowl with musicians, Cyprus, late 9th or early 8th century BCE. The engraved scene shows musicians and dancers. In this bronze bowl, five inches in diameter, three female musicians are playing, respectively, a double pipe, a lyre, and a frame drum or cymbals in the presence of a seated female (perhaps a goddess) while several women, holding hands, dance or move in procession before her.

Credits

Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez, Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité : Égypte, Assyrie, Perse, Asie Mineure, Grèce, Étrurie, Rome, vol. 3 (Paris : Hachette et Cie, 1882), fig. 482, p. 673.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.