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scabellum
musical instrument
Also known as: kroupala, kroupalon, kroupezai, scabella
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percussion instruments
- In percussion instrument: Idiophones
…adopted by Rome as the scabella. Other idiophones included bells, cymbals, the unidentified ēcheion, and an instrument simply called “the bronze” (chalkos), probably a metal percussion disk. When the Egyptian cult of Isis spread to Greece and Rome, her sistrum followed, always in the hands of a priest or—rarely—priestess.
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