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Salpinx. Musicians playing the salpinx (trumpet) and the hydraulis (water organ). Terracotta figurine made in Alexandria, 1st century BC. Greek warrior blowing a salpinx. A salpinx (/ ˈsælpɪŋks /; plural salpinges / sælˈpɪndʒiːz /; Greek σάλπιγξ) was a trumpet -like instrument of the ancient Greeks. [1]
Gulella salpinx. Herbert, 2002 [2] Gulella salpinx, common name Trumpet-mouthed hunter snail, [3] is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae . This species is endemic to Marble Delta, South Africa. [2] Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Gynecology. A hydrosalpinx is a condition that occurs when a fallopian tube is blocked and fills with serous or clear fluid near the ovary (distal to the uterus). The blocked tube may become substantially distended giving the tube a characteristic sausage-like or retort-like shape.
The Greek playwright Aeschylus described the sound of the salpinx as "shattering"; the word salpinx is thought to mean "thunderer". At the Olympic Games, contests of trumpet playing were introduced for the first time in 396 BCE. These contests were judged not by the participants' musical skill but by the volume of sound they generated.
In the Greek Bible, the original animal horn qarnā is rendered salpinx and in the Latin Vulgate tuba, thus reinterpreting it as a straight metal trumpet. [17] The word qarnā becomes karnā in the medieval Arabic texts for a straight or curved trumpet with a conical tube (for the exact origin of the ancient trumpets see there).
Fallopian tube. The fallopian tubes, also known as uterine tubes, oviducts[1] or salpinges (sg.: salpinx), are paired tubular sex organs in the human female body that stretch from the ovaries to the uterus. The fallopian tubes are part of the female reproductive system. In other vertebrates, they are only called oviducts.
The Salpinx was a straight trumpet 62 inches (1,600 mm) long, made of bone or bronze. Homer’s Iliad (9th or 8th century BCE) contain the earliest reference to its sound and further, frequent descriptions are found throughout the Classical Period. [9] Salpinx contests were a part of the original Olympic Games. [10]
At Lerna, Plutarch knew (Isis and Osiris), Dionysus was summoned as "Bugenes", "son of the Bull" with a strange archaic trumpet called a salpinx, while a lamb was cast into the waters as an offering for the "Keeper of the Gate."