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THIS is the OLDEST STRINGED INSTRUMENT I can find so far. This is an Egyptian bow harp taken from Egyptian mural drawings and is with some probability the ancestor of modern harps. This is from the IV Dynasty - 3000 BC |
| Here is a Cycladic Marble statue of a harpist from the island of Keros. Phoenician idols found together with this harp points to the possibility that this harp originated in Phoenicia, which is expressedly metioned in Greek literature as one of the countries that in ancient times used triangular stringed instruments. It dates to 3000 BC and is now in the National Museum in Athens. |  |
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On the right is a lyre player from the Mosaic Standard of UR.
The piece is from 2600 BC and is now in the British
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<<< On the left is a modern reproduction of the silver lyra from Ur, now also in the British Museum |  |
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