Finger Ring with a Siren, Sphinx, and Hippocamp
Etruscan (unknown maker) · 550–500 B.C. · The J. Paul Getty Museum · Los Angeles, USA
An Etruscan goldsmith set a Siren on this ring — one of the bird-women whose song Odysseus dared to hear, tied fast to his mast. Explore its place in Book XII of the Odyssey.