Item TAA iii.52.1 - Replicas of the two sistra from Tutankhamun's tomb

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Commissioned in 2022 by James Whitbourn, Fellow and Director of Music at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Senior Research Fellow at St Stephen’s House, Oxford, Director of Music at Harris Manchester College, Oxford and a member of the Faculty of Music in the University of Oxford.

Presented by James Whitbourn in January 2024.

Replicas of the two sistra found in Tutankhamun's tomb. The replica sistra were commissioned in 2022 and were used in the performances of James Whitburn's composition 'Zahr Al-Khayal', based an Egyptian love poem roughly contemporary with Tutankhamun.

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• 1:1 scale

• http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/075.html
• http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/076.html