Credit: painter: ancient Egyptian. Photographer, unknown.
License: Public Domain
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Comments: A man playing an Egyptian lute. From Rekhmire's tomb in Thebes, TT100 (Thebian tomb 100). circa 1549 /1550 BC–1292 BC.
Credit: Unknown author
License: Public Domain
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Comments: Egyptian lute players. Fresco found in Thebes, from the tomb of Nebamun, a nobleman in the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt (c. 1350 BC).
Credit: Zenit
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Comments: Arab Qanbuz/Qanbus lute.
From Easton: Psaltery, a musical instrument, supposed to have been a kind of lyre, or a harp with twelve strings. The Hebrew word nebhel, so rendered, is translated "viol" in Isaiah 5:12 (R.V., "lute"); 14:11. In Daniel 3:5, Daniel 3:7, Daniel 3:10, Daniel 3:15, the word thus rendered is Chaldaic, pesanterin, which is supposed to be a word of Greek origin denoting an instrument of the harp kind.
