EditorialSpacer with Hathor head, Third Intermediate Period (including Kushite), Dynasty 21?25, ca. 1070?664 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, L. 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.); H. 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); D. 0.5 cm (3/16 in.), A spacer is an element intended to keep multiple strands ...
EditorialVz: a chariot pulled by four horses as usual next to each other (the left horse is shown in the foreground, the other three in the background), is mixed by a bald man in a short tunic, the man and the horses bear plumes on their heads, he has the reins...
EditorialVz: standing Fortuna with c.c. and sistrum? to the right, gem, intaglio, praseem (?), Color: dark green mottled, Shape: oval, standing, Processing: in gold ring, Type :, 15 x 11 mm, D. 2 mm, wt. 3.05 gr., 18th century 1700-1800.
EditorialMusical instruments from reliefs in Rome. Lyre or cithara, triangle or sistrum, horn, tambourine, pipe, tibia, etc. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own 100 Plates of Costumes Religious, Civil a...
EditorialEgyptian Art. Dendera. Temple of Hathor. The god Ihy, as adult, making offerings before an small figure of Ihy, wearing a double crown and holds a sistrum in his hand, and gods Hathor (his mother) and Horus, both of them wearing a double crown too. Rel...
EditorialSpacer with Hathor head, Third Intermediate Period (including Kushite), Dynasty 21?25, ca. 1070?664 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, L. 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.); H. 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); D. 0.5 cm (3/16 in.), A spacer is an element intended to keep multiple strands ...
EditorialBronze ring with bells 1, sistrum (triangle) and timpani (cymbals) used by Bacchantes from the Museum of Portici 2, bell (tintinnabulum) 3 and stick A, pipes from the Villa Albani 4, flutes or tibia from a basrelief in Casa Guistiniani 5, military horn...
EditorialDance of the whirling Dervishes of Mawlawi Tawagozi. Sufi Dervishes in tall hats dance in a circle to accompaniment by musicians on drums, psaltery and sistrum. Ballo dei Dervisch Mewlewi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi after Giulio Ferrari...
EditorialA bas-relief depicting a satyr at left holding two infants, another child satyr to right, dancing to the sound of the sistrum played by the woman in center, around the relief, a vase decorated with the head of a satyr, plants, and a thyrsus, from 'Four...
EditorialEgyptian Art. Dendera. Temple of Hathor. The god Ihy, as adult, making offerings before an small figure of Ihy, wearing a double crown and holds a sistrum in his hand, and gods Hathor (his mother) and Horus, both of them wearing a double crown too. Relief.
EditorialBronze sistrum (rattle), 1st?3rd century A.D., Roman, Bronze, Length: 5 1/4 in., Weight: 1.6oz. (13.3 cm, 45g), Bronzes, The sistrum was used during religious ceremonies to ward off evil spirits with its jingling noise. It was particularly necessary in...
EditorialA bas-relief depicting a satyr at left holding two infants, another child satyr to right, dancing to the sound of the sistrum played by the woman in center, around the relief, a vase decorated with the head of a satyr, plants, and a thyrsus, from 'Four...
EditorialBronze sistrum (rattle), 1st?3rd century A.D., Roman, Bronze, Length: 5 1/4 in., Weight: 1.6oz. (13.3 cm, 45g), Bronzes, The sistrum was used during religious ceremonies to ward off evil spirits with its jingling noise. It was particularly necessary in...
EditorialCarved Plaque of Amenhotep III, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1390?1352 B.C., From Egypt, carnelian, h. 2.3 cm ( 7/8 in); w. 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in); th. 0.2 cm (1/16 in), Two princesses, each holding a sistrum and an ankh, face the enthroned Amenhotep III an...
EditorialSpacer with Hathor head, Third Intermediate Period (including Kushite), Dynasty 21?25, ca. 1070?664 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, L. 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.); H. 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); D. 0.5 cm (3/16 in.), A spacer is an element intended to keep multiple strands ...
EditorialMusical instruments from reliefs in Rome. Lyre or cithara, triangle or sistrum, horn, tambourine, pipe, tibia, etc. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own 100 Plates of Costumes Religious, Civil a...
EditorialAncient Roman musical instruments from paintings and carved marble monuments in Naples, including sistrum, cithara, lute, lyre, trigono, horn and tambourine. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own...
EditorialBronze ring with bells 1, sistrum (triangle) and timpani (cymbals) used by Bacchantes from the Museum of Portici 2, bell (tintinnabulum) 3 and stick A, pipes from the Villa Albani 4, flutes or tibia from a basrelief in Casa Guistiniani 5, military horn...
EditorialEgyptian Art. Dendera. Temple of Hathor. The god Ihy, as adult, making offerings before an small figure of Ihy, wearing a double crown and holds a sistrum in his hand, and gods Hathor (his mother) and Horus, both of them wearing a double crown too. Relief.