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DR397: Aristotle: Salpinx; Melody without the Lyre

Author details/dating: Aristotle 384-322 BCE

Instrument Cited: salpinx, lyre

Citation Reference: Aristotle, Rhetoric 3.6.7

Aeschylus (ii); Eumenides

Author details/dating: Aeschylus 458 BCE

Instrument Cited: salpinx, Tyrrhenian

Citation Reference: Aeschylus Eumenides line 569 ff.

Aesop, The Gnat and the Lion

Author details/dating: Aesop Born: c. 620 BCE, Delphi, Greece, died 564 BC, Nationality: Greek

Aesop, The Horse and His Rider

Author details/dating: Aesop Born: c. 620 BCE, Delphi, Greece, died 564 BC, Nationality: Greek

Aesop, The Trumpeter taken Prisoner

Author details/dating: Aesop Born: c. 620 BCE, Delphi, Greece, died 564 BC, Nationality: Greek

Athenaeus: Salpinx had Keras added as bell

Author details/dating: Athenaeus

Instrument Cited: salpinx, Phrygian aulos

Citation Reference: Athenaeus: Deipnosophistae, 4.185

Athenaeus: Salpinx had Keras added as bell

Author details/dating: Athenaeus

Instrument Cited: salpinx, Phrygian aulos

Citation Reference: Athenaeus: Deipnosophistae, 4.185

Athenaeus: Salpinx had Keras added as bell

Author details/dating: Athenaeus

Instrument Cited: salpinx, Phrygian aulos

Citation Reference: Athenaeus: Deipnosophistae, 4.185

DR260: Cavary called by Salpinx

Author details/dating: Andocides 415 BCE

Instrument Cited: Salpinx

Citation Reference: Andocides, 1.45

Athenaeus:Invention of Salpinx and Keras

Author details/dating: End 2nd beginning of 3rd century CE

Instrument Cited: Keras, Salpinx

Athenaeus:Salpinx like Arse of a Gnat

Author details/dating: End 2nd beginning of 3rd century CE

Instrument Cited: Keras, Salpinx

Bacchylides

Author details/dating: N/A

Instrument Cited: War Trumpet (Salpinx)

Citation Reference: Paean 9

Amazon playing salpinx on epinotron

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Current Location Athens, National Museum, Inv. No. 2184

salpinktes blowing Cone-Belled salpinx

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Description: Depiction of a player blowing a cone-belled salpinx.

Salpinktes on Cup by Castle Ashby Painter

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Date of Illustration: 520 BCE

Description: Image of a salpinktes blowing and wearing greaves while carrying a shield

Salpinktes on dais

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Description: Paquette describes this scene as two silenes running before a statue of Dionysos while a third, perched on a dais, blows a cup-belled salpinx proclaiming the victory of Dionysus. The scene may have mirrored that witnessed by those present at the start of a race in the agon/games.

Salpinktes on kylix

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Current Location: Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, inv. no. 34997.

Specimen Representation: : Alexandrian Salpinktes

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Date of Illustration: Hellenistic Greek

Aristophanes: Salpinx maker’s instruments now worthless

Author details/dating: Aristophanes

Instrument Cited: salpinx

Citation Reference: Aristophanes, 1240-1241