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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...