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Musical Artifacts from Ancient Israel

Fig. 1 Woman with a timbrel. Pottery figurine. Achziv, Iron Age II. (Gorali, 35)

Fig. 2 Man with a timbrel. Pottery figurine. Nir-David, 5^th-4^th cent. BCE. (Gorali, 36)

Fig. 3 An Assyrian Cymbalist. (Cornill, fig.4)

Fig. 4 Clappers. Bronze clappers [reconstruction]. (Gorali, 20)

Fig. 5 Rattle/Pottery. Beit Semesh. Iron Age II. (Gorali, 6)

Fig. 6 Rattle/Pottery. Iron Age II. (Gorali, 7)

Fig. 7 Rattle/Pottery. Iron Age II. (Gorali, 9)

Fig. 8 Bronze-figurine with instrument. Tell el-Mueteselim,

14^th cent. BCE. (Sendrey, p. 68)

Fig. 9 Pottery figurine. Achziv, Iron Age II. (Gorali, 51)

Fig. 10 Yemenite shofar, carved with quotations from the Bible. (Sendrey, p. 360)

Fig. 11 Relief on the Arch of Titus. Shows silver trumpets. (Cornill, Fig. 16)

Fig. 12 Bone whistle. Tell Beit Mirsim, Iron Age I. (Gorali, 39)

Fig. 13 Assyrian Wall Relief. Semitic captives playing on four-stringed harps. (Cornill, Fig. 15)

Fig. 14 Egyptian picture of a Bedouin with a kinnor. (Cornill, Fig. 3)