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Eternal Egypt: Musical Instrument
This wooden musical instrument is in two parts. The main part is a kind of long curved stick to which strings might be attached. The second element of the instrument is a rounded wooden bow, that was used to make music on the strings.
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Eternal Egypt: Toy or Musical Instrument
The musical instrument or children's toy consists of a rectangular carved piece of wood with a hollowed and decorated handle.
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Eternal Egypt: Stringed Musical Instrument
Stringed musical instrument found with no string on it. This instrument resembles the guitar yet it has no wooden machine heads that are used to tie up the strings.
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Eternal Egypt: Model of Musical Entertainment
The wooden model from the tomb of Ka-tenen depicts musicians and singers performing for the master.
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Eternal Egypt: Wooden Rattle
The musical instrument, a rattle, is made of wood. The rattle is formed of three pieces, one of which is large and ends in a small handle, which is decorated with geometric shapes.
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Eternal Egypt: Square Based Bell
The bell has a square base and four faces, in the shape of the top of an obelisk. It has a small handle, by which it could be suspended, and a clapper. The bell was considered in Ancient Egypt to be an idiophone musical instrument and...
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Eternal Egypt: Skin of a Tambourine
The tambourine is decorated with musical scenes and with an engraved inscription: "Isis the Mistress of the Sky".
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Eternal Egypt: One Pair of Castanets
One pair of castanets, or musical instruments, made of ivory and in the shape of human hands, depicts bearded Asiatics.
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Eternal Egypt: Musicians Playing
This block shows a musical party. The left side of the block shows six girls holding musical instruments. To the right, two men are playing a harp and others are keeping the rhythm by clapping their hands.
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Eternal Egypt: Hathor
Hathor was the goddess of the sky who nursed Horus. She was the goddess of motherhood, joy, and music.
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Eternal Egypt: Statue of the Goddess Hathor
Hathor wears her typical crown consisting of two cow horns, the sun disk, and two plumes. In her left hand, she probably held the sistrum, or rattle, her favorite musical instrument.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon of a Lute Player
Depicted on this ostracon is a female musician, wearing a broad collar and holding a musical instrument that is similar to a modern lute.
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Eternal Egypt: Amulet in the Form of a Cow
The gold cow might have been used as an amulet or a piece of inlay. Attached to its neck is a sistrum, which is a musical rattle and symbol of the goddess Hathor. In Ancient Egypt, the cow is Hathor's sacred animal.
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Eternal Egypt: Lute
This lute is a plucked string instrument with a half-pear-shaped body consisting of a small oblong sound box, or resonator, and a long neck.
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Eternal Egypt: Pair of Cymbals
The model of these cymbals is visibly different from other models. The rims of these cymbals are relatively larger and the central calotte is less convex than that of other instruments, which is the reason they produce a muffled sound.
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Eternal Egypt: Pair of Castanets
This pair of castanets is shaped like human arms wearing bracelets. They are inscribed with the names of Queen Tiye and Princess Meritaten, who was Tutankhamun's sister-in-law.
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Eternal Egypt: Double Headed Hathor Sistrum
The sistrum was one of the important instruments and amulets that accompanied the deceased in the hereafter. It was a symbol of the goddess Hathor. This sistrum amulet, in the shape of a miniature column, is one of the finest examples...
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Eternal Egypt: Sistrum With the Dwarf God Bes
A large and richly decorated sistrum. The traditional and principal decoration is the double head of the goddess Hathor surmounted by an arch. On each side of the head of Hathor is a uraeus; one wears the crown of Upper Egypt and the...
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Orchestral Natural Horn
Arizona State's descriptions of the horn are broken up by illustrations of the horn, players, and music. There is a big discussion of crooks (not the kind that go to jail), but the kind that are made when you bend metal! The author notes...
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Cor Solo
Arizona State's descriptions of the horn are broken up by illustrations of the horn, players, and music. There is a big discussion of crooks (not the kind that go to jail), but the kind that are made when you bend metal! The author notes...