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Headword:
*yalth/rion
Adler number: psi,15
Translated headword: psalterion, psaltery, harp
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A musical instrument, the one also called a navla.
Greek Original:*yalth/rion: o)/rganon mousiko/n, o(/per kai\ nau=la kalei=tai.
Note:
See M.L. West,
Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 74, for the psaltery ("In the later fourth century [BC] psaltery, 'plucking instrument', emerged as the ordinary generic word for the harp") and p.77 for the nablas or nabla, a plectrum-less harp of Phoenician origin. Cf.
nu 4.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 November 2001@05:46:53.
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