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 325–320 B.C.
about 420–410 B.C.
about 325–300 B.C.
4th century B.C.
about 375–325 B.C.
about 330–320 B.C.
about 330–320 B.C.
about 330–325 B.C.
1st half of the 1st century A.D.
late 2nd century B.C. after a late Classical original of around 360 B.C.
about A.D. 100–150