Date of Find: 1923

Location of Find: Tomb of Tutankhamen

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

Current Location: National Museum, Cairo

Condition: Complete

Musical Characteristics: B-flat; D5

Description: 494 mm long; Conical mouthpipe (wrought/brazed) bronze, 403mm long x 0.25 mm thick (13 mm diameter to 25 mm diameter) conical bell, bronze joined by rivets 81mm long by 0.125 mm thick. (25 mm diameter to 84 mm diameter) Bell decorated with Kings name and representations of Re, Amun and Ptah. 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 SD20 and SD217 Provided with a close-fitting wooden insert.

Citations: BM 1972: item 45; Buchner (1973) no. 25; Kirby (1946); Hickman (1946) p. 120, Abb. 88; Montagu (1976) p. 115-117; Kirby (1952) p. 250-255; Edwards (1972); Hickmann (1949)

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