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English: Late 9th-10th century A.D., Ireland. Monasterboice South Cross, East Face. Possible cruit lyre (or harp) and wind instrument (such as pipes or trumpet); authorities in musical-instrument history have not come to complete consensus on identity of the stringed instrument. Archaeologist Peter Harbison expressed one view, that the instrument is a harp.[1] Musicologists Ann Buckley and F. W. Galpin published their view that the instrument is a lyre.[2][3]
  1. ↑ Harbison, Peter (1994) Irish high crosses with the figure sculptures explained, Boyne Valley Honey Company, pp. 85−88 "Christ...is flanked on one side by David with a bird (inspiration in the form of the Holy Spirit) standing on his harp."
  2. ↑ Buckley, Ann (2008). "Musical Monuments from Medieval Meath". Ríocht na Midhe 19): 26. "The lyre has one arm longer than the other, thus the stringholder (to which the arms are attached) is pointed upwards towards the side away from the player. The strings are in fan formation and are stretched over a bridge, which is still visible, towards the lower end of the instrument."
  3. ↑ Galpin, F. W. (1 February 1912). "The Origin of the Clarsech or Irish Harp". The Musical Times 53 (828): 89-92. Musical Times Publications Ltd.. "Instruments of like character, but slightly different in outline, are illustrated on the Crosses of Monasterboice and Durrow, and also in an Irish manuscript (Brit. Mus. Vit. F. XI.) of the 9th century. But none of these instruments are harps, they are all of the lyre type..."
Date late 9th-10th century A.D.
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Sculpture, Head of the east face of the south cross, from Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland
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unknown sculptor, Ireland, 9th-10th century A.D.

photography (before image was modified by cropping) by Andreas F. Borchert

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Cruit and pipes, Manasterboice South Cross, East Face.

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