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Information about Roman pandura-type instruments comes mainly from ancient Roman artwork. Under the Romans the pandura was modified: the long neck was preserved but was made wider to take four strings, and the body was either oval or slightly broader at the base, but without the inward curves of the
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There were at least two distinct varieties of pandura. One type was pear-shaped, used in Assyria and Persia. In this type the body had graceful inward curves which led up gradually from base to neck. These curves changed at the bottom end off the instrument to a more sloping outline, an elongated
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is very rare as a word in classical Latin texts, but pandura-type instruments are not very rare in ancient Roman artwork. This raises the question: what then did the ancient Romans call it? Classical Latin
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meant a lyre-type instrument at least sometimes, but sometimes it meant any plucked string musical instrument, and it seems very probable that the pandura was called by the name
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was a medium or long-necked lute with a small resonating chamber, used by the ancient Greeks. It commonly had three strings: such an instrument was also known as the
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triangle with the corners rounded off. The oval type, a favourite instrument of the Egyptians, was also found in ancient Persia and among the Arabs of North Africa.
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The sarcophagus is in The British Museum, which says it was uncovered near Rome and was probably made in Rome itself, and date-estimates it 3rd century AD.
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and remained popular also in the near east and eastern Europe, too, usually acquiring a third string in the course of time, since the fourth century BC.
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artwork depicts such lutes from the 3rd or 4th century BC onward. Iranian influences are indicated by the Persian origin of the word.
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Roman or Byzantine pandoura from a 6th-century A.D. mosaic in the Great Palace of Constantinople. The instrument has three strings.
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by David Talbot Rice. Henry George Farmer calls the instrument "a three-stringed pandoura" in his 1949 article
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Hassan, Scheherezade Qassim; Morris, R. Conway; Baily, John; During, Jean (2001). "Tanbūr". In
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Memorial stele for a 16-year-old Roman woman, shown playing a pandurium, 2nd century AD, from
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Imagen y memoria: Monumentos funerarios con retratos en la colonia Augusta Emerita
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Edmondson, Jonathan; Basarrate, Trinidad Nogales; Trillmich, Walter (2001).
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A Latin Dictionary; Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary
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Brett, Gerard (1942). "The Mosaic of the Great Palace in Constantinople".
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in classical Latin at least sometimes. The classical Latin dictionary of
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Terracotta figure of a woman playing a pandoura, ca. 300 BC, Cyprus
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La joven LUTATIA toca un instrumento de cuerda, tipo "pandarium"...
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Website that has a history of Pandura with some good photos.
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Picture of a pandura, originally published 1947 in the book
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is a three-string fretted instrument. The modern Georganian
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McKinnon, J. W. (1984). "Pandoura". In Sadie, S. (ed.).
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Farmer, Henry George (1949). "An Early Greek Pandore".
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played similar instruments from the 3rd millennium BC.
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as English "cithara, cithern, guitar, or lute". See
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The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
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Index

Pandoura

Muse
bas relief
Mantineia
NAMA
Classification
Necked lutes
String instruments
Related instruments
Angélique (instrument)
Archlute
Barbat (lute)
Bağlama
Baglamas
Bouzouki
Byzantine Lyra
Charango
Chitarra Italiana
Dombra
Domra
Dutar
Lute
Mandolin
Oud
Panduri
Phandar
Tambura
Tambouras
Tanbur

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