Saturday, November 29, 2025

A double flute player

 


A quadri-faced box made of ambergris featuring a player with a double flute and a headless woman carrying a vessel.

Provenance:?
Dimensions: 10 x 5.6 x 3.8 cm. 
Era: Roman (2nd century CE). 
Photo: Marwān Mislmānī.  
Collection: National Museum of Damascus (acquired in 1948). 


Bašīr Zuhdī. Lamḥā ʿan al-ʾālāt al-musīqīyyā al-qadīmā wa mašāhid al-mūsīqīyyīin ʿala ʾāṯārinā al-fannīyyā. Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 1972 (pp. 81-121).

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