Date : IIIrd century B.C.
Material : Marble
Acquisition : Fouilles
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Greek Antiquities
Sculpture (Statue)
Area related
Tarsus (Turkey)
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Marsyas, the Satyr, found a flute, which had been thrown away by Athena. She had tried to play it but, but realizing how ugly she looked with protruded mouth, had immediately given it up. When Marsyas found that he could play nice music with the flute he challenged Apollo and claimed to make sweeter music with his flute than Apollo with his lyre. Marsyas was the loser and Apollo first hanged him from a pine tree and then flayed him.
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