A hybrid creature with the head of a man, sometimes bearded, and the body of a bird. They are found in the form of “plastic” (modelled) vases and as a vase-painting theme. They are among the hybrid creatures (sirens, sphinxes and griffins) that appear in Archaic art as part of the Orientalising Style of the early Archaic and Archaic periods (mainly in the 7th and early 6th c. BC). Like sirens, male sirens were associated in the Greek world with death, as we see from the terracotta male siren accompanying a child burial in the Knossos area as a funerary offering.