Lyre
- Museum number:
- 9-4731
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090004731
- Accession number:
- Acc.977
- Description:
- Lyre; 5 strings, skin-covered sound box. Diameter 30 cm; cloth wrapped crosspiece 44.5 cm long.
- Donor:
- University of California African Expedition
- Collection place:
- Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai peninsula, Egypt
- Collector:
- University of California African Expedition
- Collection date:
- January 1948
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Box lyres
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- 1949
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Loans:
- S1974-1975 #4: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (July 19, 1974–February 7, 1975), S1974-1975 #67: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 5, 1975–May 7, 1975), S1977-1978 #2: Music Library (UC Berkeley) (July 27, 1977–October 6, 1977), and S1994-1995 #9b: SFO Museum (May 5, 1995–June 12, 1995)
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