Sappho, Ancient Greek Writer of Poetry

Sappho with downcast head is represented leaning with her right palm on a Doric columnar plinth, upon which an upturned bowl of foliage, with Greek key design rests, with an unwound scroll which inscribed in Greek with the last stanza of her 'Ode to Aphrodite'. At the foot of the plinth, a ewer, pair of doves whose feet are bound together with a ribbon. In her left hand Sappho carries a draped lyre. Size: Height: 86 cm.

Collection

Bowes Museum

Inventory Number

1574315

Title

Sappho, Ancient Greek Writer of Poetry

Object Type

Image

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