Sistrum
ca. 380-250 BCE (Late Period (30th dynasty)-early Ptolemaic Period)
H: 14 5/16 in. (36.3 cm)
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The sistrum is a musical rattling instrument that was popular in the cult of the goddess Hathor. Called a "seshsehet" in Egyptian, the name imitates the swishing sound the small metal disks made when the instrument was shaken. Priestesses and royal women participating in ritua...
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Maurice Nahman, Cairo and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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