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The spread of pipes (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



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music
pipes
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Iconographic tradition

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The practice of playing pipes in pairs was universal in the ancient Near East. We have a pair of silver pipes from Ur dating from about 2600 BCE, and paired pipes are depicted on later Mesopotamian and Egyptian monuments. Some Egyptian instruments have survived. A figurine from the small Cycladic island of Keros, dating from the middle part of the third millennium, represents a man playing a pair of pipes, The Minoans also knew them, as we can see from their appearance in a sacrifical scene on the Hagia Triadha sarcophagus.

Bibliography

West 1992, 81-82West, Martin L. Ancient Greek Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1992.

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Cf. Mesopotamia and the Greek music (1)
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Erik van Dongen


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