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Carnyx from the Tintignac group. Three carnyx players depicted on plate E of the Gundestrup cauldron. The ancient carnyx was a wind instrument used by the Celts during the Iron Age, between c. 200 BC and c. AD 200. It was a type of trumpet made of bronze with an elongated S shape, held so that the long straight central portion was vertical and ...
A cornu or cornum (Latin: cornū, cornūs or cornum, " horn ", sometimes translated misleadingly as " cornet "; pl.: cornua) was an ancient Roman brass instrument about 3 m (9.8 ft) long in the shape of a letter 'G'. The instrument was braced by a crossbar that stiffened the structure and provided a means of supporting its weight on the player ...
Ancient Celtic music. Appearance. This article is about the music and instruments of the ancient Celts until late Antiquity. For the modern folkloristic genre and its history, see Celtic music. Carnyx players (bottom right) on a panel from the Gundestrup Cauldron. Sculpture depicting a bard with a lyre (Brittany, 2nd century BC) Deductions ...
The genus of animal-horn instruments to which the shofar belongs is called קרן (keren) in Hebrew, qarnu in Akkadian, and κέρας (keras) in Greek. [2] The olifant or oliphant (an abbreviation of the French cor d'olifant/oliphant, "elephant horn") was the name applied in the Middle Ages to ivory hunting or signalling horns made from ...
Anglo-Saxon lyre. The Anglo-Saxon lyre, also known as the Germanic lyre, a Rotta, or the Viking lyre, is a large plucked and strummed lyre that was played in Anglo-Saxon England, and more widely, in Germanic regions of northwestern Europe. The oldest lyre found in England dates before 450 AD and the most recent dates to the 10th century.
A sesheshet-type sistrum, shaped like a naos, Twenty-sixth Dynasty (ca. 580–525 BCE). The sistrum was a sacred instrument in ancient Egypt. Perhaps originating in the worship of Bat, it was used in dances and religious ceremonies, particularly in the worship of the goddess Hathor, with the U-shape of the sistrum's handle and frame seen as resembling the face and horns of the cow goddess. [9]
The Hochdorf drinking horn (iron with sheet gold ornaments, capacity 5.5 litres) Both in the Greek and the Scythian sphere, vessels of clay or metal shaped like horns were used alongside actual horns from an early time. A Late Archaic (ca. 480 BC) Attic red-figure vase shows Dionysus and a satyr each holding a drinking horn. [5]
Simek notes that the horn is among the most ancient of Germanic musical instruments, along with lurs, and, citing archaeological finds (such as the 5th century Golden Horns of Gallehus from Denmark), comments that there appears to have been sacral horns kept purely for religious purposes among the Germanic people; understood as earthly versions ...
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