Within our cemeteries, it is common to find among different symbols objects that may reflect either the profession of the buried person, or act as a reference to their affiliations or membership (i.e. Freemasonry). They may also represent their hobbies, leisure or fields of interest.
In that sense, a lyre is a common symbol of music and poetry.
In funerary arts, in can however as well symbolises “divine harmony”.
The lyre may also be associated with the Celtic origins of the person buried. It seems that the adoption of such symbol in Celtic sculpture comes originally from its Ancient Greek attribution to Apollo: The earliest Celtic gold staters are derived from the staters of Philip of Macedon and show, on the obverse, the head of Apollo. The design lasted, in an abstract form, to the end of Celtic coinage in Britain.