/internal/media/dispatcher/1002731/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailPainted Plaqueabout 470 B.C.Overall: 110 x 52 cm (43 5/16 x 20 1/2 in.)TerracottaWilliam Francis Warden Fund62.3620One of two painted Etruscan plaques (pinakes in Greek) with musicians used to cover the walls of a tomb. This one features a female lyre-player, filleted, in chiton, himation (or short stole) and sandals (tied around ankles) walking to right, on the broad band; she is holding her instrument by a cloth strap attached to her left wrist, and she strums with a plectron in right hand. A plant is at the right. No. III at bottom right. Colors: red, blue-black, and surface green on white ground.
Painted and fired. Above: fillet and ovolo, wave (left to right) bands; below: broad band broken by a maender in the form of crennelation.Paintings110.00000000000.000000000026778301