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Historical Archive: Musical Instruments, Musicians through 1200 Representations follow surviving examples. Musical horns have their own page. Standard of Ur (sound box?), lapis lazuli, shell, and red limestone, c. 2600-2400 BCE, BM ME 121201. This work has its own page. lyre/harp: bull head and front plaque, Ur c.2550-2450 BCE, Penn B17694A/B, which has its own page Greek rattle: child riding pig, ceramic, 1st c. BCE, Penn L-29-130, loan from PMA 29-6-134. For oblique view see Penn. pendant with rattling chains, 11th-13th c. East Slavic, MSHM flute or whistle fr. Lady Wootton's Green Canterbury, leg bone of a crane, 12th c., CHM 12th-c. bone flute and late 14th/early 15th-c. bone whistle, MAHSD Standard of Ur, musician with lyre and singer(?) at banquet. This work has its own page. ass playing harp, small animal with sistrum: lyre/harp, Ur c.2550-2450 BCE, Penn B17694A/B, which has its own page boy with pipe, Roman? rock crystal intaglio, Detroit Institute of Arts satyr with pan pipes, Roman crystal intaglio, Rouen Musée des Antiquités 761 krotala? grotesque dancers with clappers, painted sarcophagus from Crimea, late 1st/early 2nd c., Hermitage П.1899-81, which has its own page lyre, pipes, cymbals, drums, poss. tympani: sarcophagus with Bacchic procession, marble, c.150-200, KM 1981.03.0001. This work has its own page. grave stone with Orpheus from Dunapentele, 2nd half of 2nd c., HNM Dionysiac triumph, marble loculus cover, late 2nd-early 3rd c., Penn MS4017, which has its own page stringed instrument, drum, bottom: Dionysiac scene on Sasanian silver/gilt dish, 224-651, from Alkino village, Pernoll, MSHM pan pipes: Shepherd sarcophagus from Catacomb of Praetextatus (Three Shepherds Sarcophagus), marble c.370-400, Vat 31554 (ex 191A). This work has its own page. Muses, ivory diptych, 5th c., Louvre LP 1264. For details see Louvre. bell: dromedary mosaic, eastern Mediterranean (Syria?) 5th c., AIC 1970.1065 Ariadne with krotalon (cymbals): ivory pyxis, 5th-6th c., Trier? KHM X41, which has its own page cymbals hanging from tree: priestess at altar of Cybele (Nicomachorum ivory), early 5th c., Cluny Cl.17048. This work has its own page. limestone gravestone with menorah and *shofar, 8th-9th c. Taman (near Crimea), Hermitage Ѡ-1524. For oblique view see Hermitage. Dagulf Psalter cover ivories, late 8th c., Louvre. This object has its own page. lyre, flute, pan pipes, cymbals: Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page. dance of Salome, Bernward Column, Hildesheim, c. 1020, bronze, which has its own page Pan pipes? game piece with sphinx, western Europe 12th c., Hermitage gittern: Alexander casket, Byzantine ivory, prob. 12th c., poss. 6th or 9th c., Darmstadt Kg 54:215a-d, which has its own page Elder from the Apocalypse, stone, 1140-50 western France (poss. Parthenay), PMA 1945-25-71e Chartres west façade center 1140s-c.1150. For dulcimer or psaltery, lutes, gitterns, rebecs, and harps on this portal see Chartres. Novgorod cathedral doors, bronze, prob. 1152-54. The doors have their own page. drummer, left: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid and Hajib Mas'ud ibn Ahmad: Bobrinsky bucket, bronze with silver and copper, Afghanistan, 1163, Hermitage IR-2268. This work has its own page. Elder from the Apocalypse, stone, Pécs (Hungary) 1170-80, HNM Pisa Cathedral doors, bronze, Bonannus of Pisa c.1180. This work has its own page. Music playing psaltery (right): Liberal Arts casket, copper enameled and gilded, c.1190-1200, V&A 7955:2-1862. This work has its own page. viol or viola da gamba: Fiddler, limestone, Cologne late 12th-early 13th c., Schn K163. For other views see Schn. playing harp with toes: portal from Hylestad stave church, late 12th-early 13th c., OHM C4321, which has its own page