Klein-Winternheim tuba

Specimen Detail | SD220

Find Spot: Klein—Winternheim, Mainz

Date of Find: Not known

Dating of Item: Roman, based on Associated finds, iconography

Current Location: Altertumer Sammlung, Mainz

Condition: Almost complete

Description 1.57m long conical tube made in sheet iron 2.5 mm thick. Maximum diameter of tube 105mm. Found with votive offerings.

Related Material: Similar to IC144

Citations: Behn 1912: p.36.

SD228 Latdorf Mouthsupport Ring

Find Spot: Latdorf, Saale

Dating of Item: Bronze Age pre-stage

Current Location: Bernburg Museum

Condition: Fragmentary

Description: Fragment of bronze tube with a bent over edge or rim. On the inside at the edge where the rim is the tube has an irregular ring of resin as well as remnants of wooden pegs.

Citations: Coles, 1963; Schmidt, 1915, 142; Oldeberg, 1947, 11; Olshausen, 1891, 847

SD222 Llyn Cerrig Trumpet

Find Spot: Llyn Cerrig Anglesey

Date of Find: 1945

Dating of Item: La Tène, based on Associated finds and similarity to SD211

Current Location: National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Condition: Fragmentary

Description: A 555mm fragment of rivetted bronze tube, seam of wavy form featuring internal rivetting strip. Cast boss at one end of tube.

Related Material: Similar to SD211, SD223,

Citations: Fox, 1946, 44.

SD230 Water Newton Mouthpiece

Find Spot: Water Newton i

Current Location: Peterborough Museum

Description: Mouthpiece in bronze

Citations: Webster, 1960, 91, No. 230; Artis, 1828, Plate XXXVI, No. 1.

SD231 Caere Lituus

Find Spot: Caere (Cervetri)

Date of Find: 1827 ?

Dating of Item: 4th century BCE, based on Associated finds, conography

Current Location: Museo Etrusco Gregoriano, Saal III, Vitrine H. nr. 14.

Musical Characteristics: In G, sounds 2nd to 8th harmonics

Description: 1.60m long instrument, presumably similar construction to SD212.

Related Material: Similar to SD212, IC2, IC6.

Citations: 1960, 501.

SD232 Hannover Lituus

Find Spot: Near Hannover, Germany

Date of Find: 1857

Dating of Item: Possibly late Iron Age, based on Iconography

Current Location: not known `

Condition: Probably complete

Constructional Details: Cast Materials Bronze

Description: Conically bored instrument, 992mm long. Bell opening 107 mm. Bell turns through 90°. Conical mouthpiece apparently surrounded by a cast lead ring. Carrying. rings on tube and bell yards. Central ferrule Eye-shaped cross-section.

Related Material: Similar to SD203, 204, 240, 241, 242, 244, and 248. Type illustrated in IC150.

Citations: Olshausen, 1891, 857, Figure 4; Behn 1912: p.38, Abb. 4 (d).

SD233 Assyrian Shell Trumpet

Description Assyrian shell tritonium variegatum identified by Dr. F.W. Galpin as an end-blown shell trumpet.

Citations: Sachs, 1940.

SD234 Tepe Hissar Trumpet

Find Spot: Tepe Hissar, level Illc

Dating of Item: ca. 2000 BCE, based on Associated Finds

Current Location: Lost

Description: Short silver instrument which appears to have mouthpiece tube and bell.

Related Material: SD235, SD236, SD237.

Citations: Piggott, 1967, 96, Figure 23.

SD235 Tepe Hissar Trumpet

Find Spot: Tepe Hissar level IIIc

Dating of Item: ca. 2000 BCE, based on Associated Finds

Current Location: Lost

Description: Short silver instrument which appears to have mouthpiece,tube and bell.

Related Material: SD234, SD236, SD237.

Citations: Piggott, 1967, 96, Figure 23.

SD236 Asterabad Trumpet

Find Spot: Asterabad

Dating of Item: ca. 2000 BCE

Based on Similarity to Tepe Hissar Material

Current Location: Lost

Condition: Fragmentary

Description: Part of golden trumpet with tube yard, boss and flared bell.

Related Material: SD254, SD235, SD237.

Citations: Piggott, 1967, 96, Figure 24.

SD237 Asterabad Trumpet

Find Spot: Asterabad

Dating of Item: ca. 2000 BCE, based on Similarity to Tepe Hissar material

Current Location: Lost

Condition: Fragmentary

Description: Part of golden trumpet with mouthpiece, tube yard, boss and fragment of flared bell.

Related Material: SD234, SD235, SD236.

Citations Piggott, 1967, 96, Figure 24.

SD238 Klagenfurt Cornu

Find Spot: Baths District of Virunum

Dating of Item: Roman, based on Similarity to other Roman material.

Current Location: Landesmuseum für Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria.

Condition: Fragmentary

Description: Fragment of bell of cornu with bell end and annular bell disc.

Citations: Klar, 1971; Schenk, 1946, 35, Abb, 1.

SD239 Naples Cornu

Current Location: Museo Nazionale, Naples, No. 71.329

Condition Complete?

Description: 0ne of two cornua in the Museo Nazionale

Citations: Fleischhauer 1960: p.502.

SD240 Short ? Lituus

Find Spot: Near Goedereede

Dating of Item: Late lron-Age/Medieval, based on lconography

Current Location: Town Hall, Goedereede, Holland

Condition: Complete, repaired

Musical characteristics: A3, A4, E5, A5

Constructional Details: Cast, phobably two-part mould with wrought

additions. Materials Brass

Description: Conically-bored instrument, 780 mm long of roughly octagonal cross-section. Mouthpiece of wide throat of 8.9 mm passing into bore - terminates at bell 100 mm A/F. Bell turns through approx. 60°. Instrument made in three pieces: mouthpipe + central yard + bell yard. Central part now repaired with sheet. Carrying mounts on tube and bell yards probably rivetted on.

Related Material: Similar to SD203, 204, 232, 241, 242,

Citations: Trimpe-Burger, 1960-61, 202, Afb. 6.

SD241 Caprington Horn

Find Spot: Coilsfield, in Kyle, Ayrshire

Date of Find: Before 1654

Dating of Item: Late Iron Age/Mediaeval, based on Iconography

Current Location: Caprington Castle, nr. Kilmarnock

Condition: Complete

Musical Characteristics: C#4, C5, G#5, C#6.

Constructional Details: Cast, split mould. Materials Bronze: 90.26% Cu. 9.61% Sn.

Description: Conically bored instrument 635mm long, tapering from 4mm (throat) to 102mm diameter. This curves through approx. 75° and is slightly flared. Conical mouthpiece. Instrument now in two pieces with brass sleeve (probably modern) joining these together. Carrying mounts on tube and bell yards. Round cross section.

Related Material: Similar to SD203, 204, 232, 240, 242 and 248. Type illustrated on IC150.

Citations: Behn 1912: p.38; Cochran-Patrick, 1878, 74-5; The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol. V, 1845, W. Blackwood and Sons.

SD242 Charlottenburg Short Lituus

Find Spot: River Main, between Florsheim and Russelsheim.

Dating of Item: probably Late Iron Age, based on Iconography

Current Location: Charlottenburg Museum, Berlin

Condition: Complete

Constructional Details: Cast, lost wax. Materials Bronze

Description: Conically-bored instrument 702mm long tapering from 4.5mm (throat) to 114mm diameter bell. This curves through 90° but remains basically conical. of integral construction. Carrying mounts on mouthpipe and bell yard. Eye shaped cross-section.

Related Material: Similar to SD203, 204, 232, 240, 241 and 248. Type illustrated on IC150.

Citations: F Klar 1971: 308-9, Abb. 3; Behn 1912: p.38.

SD243 Naples Cornu

Find Spot: Pompeii

Dating of Item Prior to 79 CE

Current Location: Saal LXXIX, Museo Nazionale in Naples, No. 71.330

Condition: Complete

Description: Cornu with a diameter of 1.26m in G. Total length 3.33 m.

Citations: Klar, 1971; Fleischhauer 1960: p.502.

SD244 Köslin Horn

Find Spot: Gollenberg, near Köslin, now Kozsalin, Poland

Date of Find: Before 1586

Dating of ltem: Possibly Late lron Age/Mediaeval, based on lconography

Current Location: Not known

Condition: Possibly complete although repaired

Constructional Details: Cast. Materials Bronze

Description: Conically bored instrument 820mm long opens out to bell which turns through 90°. No mounts, one loop on inner curve of bell.

Related Material: Similar to SD203, 204, 232, 240, 241, 242 and 248. Type illustrated on 1C150.

Citations: Behn 1912: p.38-9; Spielberg 1922; Olshausen, 1891, 860-1; Noak, 1872, 217.

SD245 Lydney Mouthpiece

Find Spot: Lydney

Date of Find: 1928

Dating of Item: Roman, based on Similarity to other material

Condition: Complete

Description: Mouthpiece made of bronze. Complete in itself showing no signs of attachment to remainder of instrument.

Citations: Report on the excavation of the pre-historic, Roman and Post Roman site at Lydney Park, 1932, 81, Figure 16, No. 47.

SD246 Heddenheim Mouthpiece

Find Spot Heddenheim, Germany

Dating of Item: Roman, based on Similarity to other material

Description: Roman mouthpiece, complete, no evidence of having been joined to rest of instrument.

Citations: Report on the excavation of the pre-historic, Roman and Post Roman site at Lydney Park, 1932, 81, Figure 16, No. 47.