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A kylix depicting the god Apollo pouring a libation and holding an early version of the lyre (chelys) which was made from the shell of a tortoise. The bird may represent the crow which announced the marriage of the nymph Aigle-Korone, the daughter of King Phlegyas. Provenance: Delphi, 480-470 BCE, artist unknown. (Delphi Archaeological Museum).
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Original image by Dennis Jarvis. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 16 December 2012 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
Jarvis, D. (2012, December 16). Apollo with Lyre. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/986/
Jarvis, Dennis. "Apollo with Lyre." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified December 16, 2012. https://www.ancient.eu/image/986/.
Jarvis, Dennis. "Apollo with Lyre." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 16 Dec 2012. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
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