Date of Find: 1923

Location of Find: Tomb of Tutankhamen

Dating of Item: c. 1350 BCE, 18th Dynasty based on Conventional Egyptological dating

Current location: National Museum, Cairo

Condition: Complete

Musical Characteristics: A-flat3, C5.

Description: 582 mm long. Conical mouthpipe, wrought/brazed, silver, 474mm long, 17mm to 26mm diameter, conical/slightly flared bell, silver 112mm long with 82mm diameter bell. Bell decorated with names of the Gods, Re, Amun and Ptah and with a Lotus leaf design. Measurements from Hickmann (1946). Gold leaf at mouthpipe/bell junction and mouthsupport. This is an added ring with tube end swaged over it.

Related material: Similar to SD202 and SD207.Provided with close-fitting wooden insert.

Citations: BM 1972:item 45; Buchner (1973) No. 25; Kirby (1946); Hickmann (1946) p. 120, Abb. 88; Kirby (1952) p. 250-55; Edwards (1972); Hickmann (1949).