M0019768: Depictions of an Ancient Egyptian male harper and girl haper

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Egyptian A)Male Harper and B) Girl Haper playing a trigon of 6 strings

Reproduction of two photographs. The first is of blue glazeware depicting a male harper, held by the Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem. The second is a 19th Dynasty depiction of a girl haper playing a trigon of 6 strings held by the British Museum. The reproduction is from Leibovitch, J: "The Statuette of an Egyptian Harper and String-Instruments in Egyptian Statuary", The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 46, December 1960

January 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.