Bow harp with curving neck and a long boat-like shaped sound box. At the end of the curved neck are five pegs. Originally covered by parchment or animal skin, attached through pairs of holes along the edge of the sound box, at intervals of 75 mm. The sound box would have resonated when the instrument’s five strings were plucked. The harp was buried between two coffins within a shaft-tomb belonging to Senuatef and his family who lived sometime during Egypt's 11th/12th Dynasty. 


From John Garstang's excavations at Beni Hasan, tomb 287. Given to John Rankin in return for his excavation subscription and presented by him to the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology as a gift. Transferred to World Museum in 1912.


CONDITION NOTE 1998: Old infestation, dry, surface dirt. Modern string.

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Bow harp with curving neck and a long boat-like shaped sound box. At the end of the curved neck are five pegs. Originally covered by parchment or animal skin, attached through pairs of holes along the edge of the sound box, at intervals of 75 mm. The sound box would have resonated when the instrument’s five strings were plucked. The harp was buried between two coffins within a shaft-tomb belonging to Senuatef and his family who lived sometime during Egypt's 11th/12th Dynasty. From John Garstang's excavations at Beni Hasan, tomb 287. Given to John Rankin in return for his excavation subscription and presented by him to the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology as a gift. Transferred to World Museum in 1912. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Old infestation, dry, surface dirt. Modern string.

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