Weeping Siren
about 350–325 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueMarble, from Mount Pentelikon, near Athens
DimensionsHeight: 36.7 cm (14 7/16 in.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession number03.757
On View
On viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: "Bought by E. P. W. of Ready, who bought of a (lady) singer who said it had been given to her by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania."); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24,1903
about A.D. 150–192; first recut about A.D. 210–267; second recut about A.D. 400
about 420–410 B.C.
about 325–300 B.C.
4th century B.C.
about 330–320 B.C.
about 330–320 B.C.
about 330–325 B.C.
late 2nd century B.C. after a late Classical original of around 360 B.C.
about A.D. 100–150
A.D. 98–138
about 325–320 B.C.
about 375–325 B.C.