Terracotta relief
Unknown Artist
Seated woman with double flutes and youth
Fragment of a Melian relief; seated woman playing the double flutes and a man standing. Scholarly discussion continues as to whether the relief is ancient or a modern forgery.
Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1931
c. 450 B.C. or later
Terracotta
16.0 x 16.0cm
31.11.9
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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