Copper. From a harp. Calf's Head Attach. Note on card from storage: Also a bitumwn core from inside the calf's head. See 30-12-484 : inlay from collar.[MASCA testing prove this is bronze, not copper. The eyes are conus and lapis]
Tar or sitar. Oval body pinched at front to form 2 sound compartments covered with thin membrane. Long carved end peg painted green and red, inserted into bottom of body. Open peg box curves back at end into a carved dragon-head shape, painted red. 4 green, black and red lateral pegs. Mother of pearl inlay finger board and around edges of top sound compartment. Body and neck is painted brown with fine gold red and black floral and leaf designs. A gold bird, edged in red is on the back of the body. Wooden bow with metal tops. Ring on one end attaches to a black, red and white cloth strip attaching to bound end of black hair. Bound end directly attached to ring at other end. Poor condition. End peg detached, 1 peg missing, 2 strings missing, both membranes broken. Paint flakes. Bow - good condition.Length: 49 cm. Width, bottom compartment: 17 cm. Width, top sound compartment: 9cm. Depth of body: 14.5 cm. length bow: 49cm.
Nagara. Pottery kettledrum with hide head held on by a network of rawhide tongs. A cloth-strip roll at the base to act as padding. Rattling agents of some kind within the vessel.Object is broken.
Domra or Dumarak. Tanbur type, brown wood. Sound perforations in soundboard. Pear-shaped body comes to a point. Long Slender neck with two frontal T-shaped pegs. Poor condition. Neck broken in two pieces. Holes and cracks thoughout body. Bridge missing.
Tar. A notched-lute (figure-8 form) with movable gut frets and a parchment soundboard. Eight lateral pegs in a heavy peg-box. Inlaid finger-board.Inlaid
Tabur? Tabur-type lute with wooden sound board. Body and Neck inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Two frontal and one lateral T-shaped peg. Frets missing, but traces remain.Inlaid
Tanbur type lute with one frontal and one lateral four-pointed pegs. Moveable gut frets and silk strings. Neck and body inlaid with ivory. Body ten ribbed sections.Inlaid
Pear-shaped wooden lute with 2 strings and 2 frontal pegs. Back of body is squared off into 7 segments. Neck end curves back. Part of a piece of paper glued to sound board remains. 4 holes in diamond formation in sounding board. Good condition. Sound board unglued at places from body. 1 string broken. Length: 73 cm. Width of sound board: 13 cm. Body depth: 9.5 cm.
Pear-shaped wooden Lute. Back of neck and body painted black. Sound board and finger board with ivory and mother of pearl inlay. Triangular mother of pearl inlay at bottom edge of soundboard and up the center of finger board. 7 circular mother of pearl inlays in sound board, 1 with square of ivory inlay around it. 4 pegs (2 lateral, 2 frontal). Peg box with carved ivory facing. Carved top to peg box, of ivory. 14 movable string frets and metal strings. Good condition. Frets loose, strings broken.Length: 78 cm. Width of soundboard: 12.5 cm. Depth of body: 10.5 cm.
Wooden, pear-shaped instrument with long round neck. Soundboard made from two pieces. Small holes in soundboard in a rough pattern. 11 frets of bound string. 2 pegs in tri-lobed shape (1 frontal, 1 lateral). Poor condition- part of soundboard missing, part detached. Strings missing.Length: 85 cm. Body depth: 12 cm. Soundboard width: 15 cm.
Tambura. Wooden, pear-shaped. 7 gut, moveable frets. 7 T-shaped pegs with tips of ivory (4 frontal, 3 lateral). Finger board of inlaid wood and mother of pearl. 6 round mother of pearl inlays in front of peg box. 6 round mother of pearl inlays also in sound board. End above peg box pointed. Metal strings. Poor condition. Bottom of body broken and pieces missing. Frets unraveled. 2 pegs missing. Some inlay missing. Sound board cracked badly.Length: 30cm. Width sound board: 11.5 cm. Depth of body: 13 cm.
El-oud. Round backed lute, large body with short neck. Body has thin lins of light colored wood inlya. Sound board of light wood; Sound hole with rose. Neck inlaid with ivory in scroll designs. Peg box curved back. 14 lateral pegs. Fair condition. Body cracked in several places, 1 peg missing.Length: 90 cm. Diam of body: 34.8 cm. Body depth: 19 cm.Inlaid
Metal (silver plate?). Scales carved in each end of bow, curved snake head as hand grip. Light hair bound with leather at one end, tied around notch at other end. Good condition. Some hair torn, accompanying fiddle missing.Length: 59.5 cm.
Shepherd's Pipe (Double Reed). Pipes are light brown with 6 front holes carved in eachpipe. Mouth end is thinner than rest of pip. The 2 pipes are attached to each other by string at 4 places. String attached to each end of pipes used as handleMeijiwiz (double reed). Pipes are light brown with 6 frontal holes carved in each pipe. Mouth end is thinner than rest of pipe. The 2 piepes are attached to each other by string at 4 places. String attached to each end of pipes used as handle. Good condition. (N. Martin 1872)
Special instruments were used by priests and priestesses to invoke the deities or to perform rituals before them. One of the most important instruments was the sistrum, a rattle associated with the goddess Hathor. The goddess's face is often incorporated into the sistrum's design, as is, in this example, an image of the god Bes, which serves as the object's handle. Inside of the naos-shaped top is a small cat below the clappers.
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Zourna. Bell Section curves up slightly. Bell section marked by bulging ring (open carved); section held while playing is wrapped with copper wire;cupped mouthpiece. Bell is eight-sided. Carved decoration at top of conical bell and at bottom edge. Good condition.Zourna. Dark wooden body, entirely covered with surface carvings. 7 frontal and 1 dorsal stop, a leather band encircling the oboe before each hole. Bottom of oboe is flared. Red cloth wrapped around reed holder, ivory disk fits below reed. Good condition. Length: 39cm, Diam. of bell: 5.5cm.Carved