Thursday, December 11, 2025

Women and Tambourines

 


Each of these two lamps features a dancing maenad holding a tambourine with one hand and striking it with the other. 

Provenance: ?
Substance: terracotta
Diameter: 8 cm. 
Era: 1st century (CE?). 
Photo: Marwān Mislmānī.  

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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