Televet Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 (edited) http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/marble-idol.-anatolian,-early-bronze-age,-circa-3-c-0a94498b93 Carry on Edited to admit geographical faux pas...Violin from a Spanish collection, but of course originating from the other end of the Med' in what is now Turkey. Quite right to worship violins, however! Edited February 28, 2016 by Televet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rue Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 Rather weighty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hebbert Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 These must exist in thousands, and are found in burial sites in South Eastern Anatolia (or now, by the box load in museums). Some sort of abstract human form. Whilst they don't have any direct (or knowable) implication on musical instruments, it is certainly very interesting to see how anthropomorphic abstracts can end up relating closely to familiar musical instrument types. Not just the violin (and guitar) but there are a few variants that end up looking just as closely like the instruments that appear in late medieval iconography. If we want to argue an anthropomorphic priority in the eventual development of the violin shape (parallel to acoustical ideas), these provide interesting comparisons, but I think any argument would be necessarily whimsical and not in any way provable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin swan Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 any argument would be necessarily whimsical and not in any way provable. Good for a Strad article then ...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hebbert Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 Oh no, Martin, it wouldn't go nearly far enough to justify a Strad article! God knows what they are publishing on these days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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