The paper reviews the references to animal horns in Neo-Sumerian administrative documents and Sumerian literature. It discusses the use of the “ibex horn” (a2 dara3) as a musical instrument, blown by the herald to call the assembly, the levy, and the battle, or struck as an idiophone. Furthermore, it presents evidence for the use of different types of animal horns as containers in rituals.
Animal horns as musical instruments and containers: Neo-Sumerian evidence / Verderame, Lorenzo. - In: ORIENS ANTIQUUS. - ISSN 2704-5951. - 5(2023), pp. 123-125. [10.19272/202313401008]
Animal horns as musical instruments and containers: Neo-Sumerian evidence
Verderame, Lorenzo
2023
Abstract
The paper reviews the references to animal horns in Neo-Sumerian administrative documents and Sumerian literature. It discusses the use of the “ibex horn” (a2 dara3) as a musical instrument, blown by the herald to call the assembly, the levy, and the battle, or struck as an idiophone. Furthermore, it presents evidence for the use of different types of animal horns as containers in rituals.File allegati a questo prodotto
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