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Names of Musical Instruments: Pre-Modern Period
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1. Introduction The field of near eastern archaeomusicology attempts to synthesize the latest research in several often distinct fields of study, such as anthropology, archaeology, comparative philology, and musicology. Even with the application of sound methods, however, the picture that emerges can be very complex. Perhaps the most famous example relates to the Hebrew term כִּנּוֹר
kinnōr ‘lyre’, which is cognate with the Akkadian term
kinnāru ‘lyre’. The ancient lexical lists from Ebla, however, equate Akkadian
kinnāru with Sumerian
balag (Sjöberg 1984:78), which appears …
