Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term "all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching horns, having also a cross piece to which the stri
Roman art, 4th century A.D. Dancer with kymbalon.
Mildenhall treasure, great dish, British Museum, detail-- satyr with pan pipes
Mildenhall treasure, great dish, British Museum, detail-- aulos and tambourine
Mildenhall treasure, great dish, British Museum, frame drum
In Ancient Greek music, an aulos was a wind instrument often depicted in art and also attested by archaeology.
Greek musical instruments
…three to ten or even more in the later period, like the Byzantine era". Greek musical instruments can be classified into the following categories: Aulos Barbiton…
Man playing an aulos: Attic red-figure cup painted by the Euaion Painter, 460 B.C.–450 B.C.
The competition between Marsyas and Apollo on a Roman sarcophagus (290–300)
Theatrical scene from a Pompeiian mosaic showing a performer with an aulos and phorbeiá.