id: 101377 accession number: 1920.1990 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1990 updated: 2019-11-18 09:21:38.563000 Arched Sistrum, 380-343 BC. Egypt, Late Period, Dynasty 30. Bronze, hollow cast; overall: 21.4 x 5.3 cm (8 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1920.1990 title: Arched Sistrum title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 380-343 BC creation date earliest: 380 creation date latest: 343 current location: 107 Egyptian creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Late Period, Dynasty 30 technique: bronze, hollow cast department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - Late Period type: Implements find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 21.4 x 5.3 cm (8 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Madison 1975; Malibu 1992, no. 31 --- PROVENANCE Purchased from E.A. Abemayor, Cairo, through Howard Carter date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: A sistrum is a musical rattle. Metal disks strung on wires along the arched upper end of the sistrum produced a rustling sound that was supposed to have a calming effect on the nerves of various deities, especially the goddesses Hathor and Bastet. Appropriately, this example is decorated with a Hathor head (a woman with cow’s ears) and a cat (the image of Bastet). These instruments are particularly associated with women, who played them as members of a temple choir. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 page number: Reproduced: p. 445; Mentioned: p. 445-6 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1990/1920.1990_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1990/1920.1990_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.1990/1920.1990_full.tif