Seated Poet & Two Sirens.
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GREEK CLASSIC Anonymous (480 BCE-323 BCE): The figures are nearly life-size. Sirens have general funerary connotations. The seated man is singing and would have held a lyre. While his exact identity is unknown; he might be Orpheus who was famous for his singing and who traveled to the land of the dead and was able to return.
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