EditorialA Bacchic chorus of musicians and dancers with tibiae (woodwind), cithara (lyre) and cymbals. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialBacchic rite. Girl with tibiae, woman with guttum vase, man with ark containing statuette of Bacchus, naked director of the rite, and woman (Ceres?). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), R...
EditorialA Bacchic chorus of musicians and dancers with tibiae (woodwind), cithara (lyre) and cymbals. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialBacchic rite. Girl with tibiae, woman with guttum vase, man with ark containing statuette of Bacchus, naked director of the rite, and woman (Ceres?). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), R...
EditorialRoman musicians performing an Epithalamium (1-3), long trumpet or tuba (4), Cupid playing a double flute or Tibiae pares (5) and Egyptian musicians playing harps and a lute-like instrument (6-10). Copperplate engraving by John Lee from Abraham Rees' Cy...
EditorialAncient Roman musical instruments. A timbrel of tambour de Basque (1), a citharistria or female minstrel (2), a double lituus (3), Pan playing on the syrinx (4), a bacchanal playing on two flutes of the same pitch, tibiae pares (5), antique theatrical ...