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Siren of Cannossa
Identifier
002660
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
The "Siren of Canosa" accompanied the deceased among grave goods in a burial and has some psychopomp characteristics, guiding the dead on the after-life journey. The cast terracotta figure bears traces of its original white pigment. The woman bears the feet and the wings and tail of a bird. It is conserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, in Madrid.