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Bear with lute-family instrument

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Bear playing an unknown instrument. Possible instruments include rubab, Coptic lute, pandura. Painted between 624-643 A.D. Paintings "represent the transition between Byzantine culture and the new Islamic era."

Country: Jordan

Site: Qusayr 'Amra

Caption: Detail of a bear playing a lute in the southern wall of the frigidarium

Image Date: May 2009

Photographer: Gaetano Palumbo

Provenance: Site Visit

Original: digital CD ETH011 (shared with images from Ethiopia, Lalibela site visit)

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jordan coptic lute lute family instruments musical instruments in art quseir amra frescos rubab antiquities
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jordan coptic lute lute family instruments musical instruments in art quseir amra frescos rubab antiquities