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Archaeological Context and Dating Archaeological Context and Dating
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Evidence of Likely Uses from Textual and Visual Sources Evidence of Likely Uses from Textual and Visual Sources
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Bells Bells
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Wooden Clappers and Small Metal Cymbals Wooden Clappers and Small Metal Cymbals
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Rattles Rattles
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Panpipes Panpipes
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Making Replica Instruments to Investigate Artefact Properties Making Replica Instruments to Investigate Artefact Properties
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Analysis of Experimental Sound Measurement Data and Other Evidence Relating to Use Analysis of Experimental Sound Measurement Data and Other Evidence Relating to Use
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Bells Bells
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UC8976 Bes Bell UC8976 Bes Bell
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UC33261 Bell UC33261 Bell
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UC58526, UC58538, and UC58540, Bells on Bracelets UC58526, UC58538, and UC58540, Bells on Bracelets
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Rattles Rattles
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Cymbals Cymbals
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Panpipes Panpipes
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Clappers Clappers
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Sounds in Spaces Sounds in Spaces
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Abstract
The chapter investigates a specific functional category of objects of everyday life: sound-producing objects, with a focus on ordinary, simple items such as bells, clappers, and rattles, and their social function and contribution to everyday experience. After an initial overview of the types of artefacts studied and their dating, evidence from a close examination of the objects themselves is set alongside wider knowledge of their use and social context available from visual and textual sources, and historical and anthropological studies that shed light on the social function of sound-making objects. An innovative aspect of this chapter is the use of evidence from artefact replicas regarding likely notes played, and the volume of the sound produced. This directly inform understanding of the possible roles played by particular types of instruments within everyday social experience in Roman and late antique Egypt, for instance whether they were suited to public performance, more individual entertainment and play, or wider social functions such as the production of alarm sounds, and their audibility to different social groups with discrepant hearing capacity, such as young children, or elderly people. Drawing on experimental recording data including the recreation of the acoustic environment within a Romano-Egyptian house, the final section examines how the sounds produced by the objects may have contributed more widely to the creation of ambient environments and collective experiences.
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