Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 388
The lyre-player holds the plectrum in his right hand ;the cord which hangs from it attaches it to the lyre. The ANTIQUITIES 337 artist has omitted part of the strings in order to show theleft hand. The black bar on the sounding-board is thebridge. 411. Lyres. Front an Attic red-figured rase at… … Part of a representation of the Nine Muses. The oneon the left holds the KiOdpa (cithara); the other, who isseated in a KAto-juos, has a xeAos (testudo), the sounding-box of which is made of tortoise-shell. 412. Lesson on the double flutes.Attic vast (kylix) by Hieron, from Caere. At Vienna.…
Classical antiquities
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