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2000 BCEThe first examples of the lyre in the Bronze Age Aegean occur in the Cyclades and on Minoan Crete.
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1420 BCE - 1300 BCEClay dancing figures including a rare female lyre player are made in Minoan Palaikastro.
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c. 1400 BCELyres across the Aegean assume S-shaped arms and become more decoratively carved, most often with sculpted birds.
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1250 BCE - 1200 BCEA Linear B tablet from Greek Thebes mentions lyre players as members of the royal palace staff.
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600 BCE - 550 BCEThe silver stater coin of Calymna in Caria depicts a tortoise shell lyre on its reverse side.
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c. 550 BCEThe silver drachma of Delos depicts a lyre - symbolic of Apollo - on its reverse side.
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c. 100 BCECoins of Kos and Thespiai depict a lyre on their reverse side.
