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A mosaic with four figures. One plays the tambourine, one plays mini cymbals and one plays the pipes. They are standing on a street and behind them is jsut visibile a door.
A mosaic from Pompeii showing a group of musicians.
A ceramic tile with the relief of three musicians. Two are dancing, one playing the pipes and one the tambourine. Another is seated and playing the cithara.
A terracotta tile showing three musicians.
A cylindrical piece of stone on which is carved lettering and symbols.
A stone relief showing a man wearing a tunic and cloak playing a curved horn.
A wall painting with a red background which shows a seated woman holding a cithara on her lap. Behind her stands a young woman. In this wall painting from the dining room of a villa at Boscoreale, near Pompeii, a woman is playing a cithara.
A small round metal disc with a circular ring attached to the centre to hold. A small metal cymbal. It would originally have been one of a pair.
Two sides of a dark metal coin. One side shows the side profile of a man, and on the other side is a figure playing the lyre. A coin from ad 64. On one side is the head of Emperor Nero, on the other Apollo playing the lyre.
A rectangular stone sarcophagus divided into two frames. The frame shows people eating and dining, reclining at a feast. The lower frame shows the nine Muses holding various objects, including a scroll, a lyre, and a theatrical mask. The nine Muses are depicted in the lower frame of this Roman sarcophagus.
A statuette of a man with a long robe wrapped around his middle and a garland on his head. In his left hands he holds a lyre. A small terracotta statue of Apollo playing the cithara. Some coloured paint still survives.
A photograph showing the ruins of a temple on the edge of a hill facing a mountainous landscape covered in trees. Not much of the temple survuves but a few columns are partially standing. The remains of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
A photograph of a long passageway with rock walls on both sides which narrow into a thin rock ceiling. It is dark but there are shafts of light. A Roman cave complex at Cumae which may have been the site of the ancient oracle.
A Greek red figure bowl. The figures are picked out on a black background. In the centre a man with a garland on his head rides a swan. On either side of his are two women, one dancing and one playing the lyre. On the far right a man stands greeting the man approaching on the swan.
A realistic painting showing one man who is nude and tied to a tree. His face is contorted in agony and beside him is a violin. Another man wearing a purple cloak leans over him. ‘Apollo and Marsyas’ by Dirck van Baburen.
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