Bucchero Siren Jug in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2018

Title: Terracotta jug in the shape of a siren

Period: Archaic

Date: ca. 550–500 BCE

Culture: Etruscan

Medium: Terracotta; bucchero pesante

Dimensions: H. 11 7/16 in. (29.1 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1918

Accession Number: 18.145.25


The siren, a mythological creature that was part woman and part bird, was a popular motif for bucchero vases.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/250690