lyras (bowl lyres)

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Scope note
Bowl lyres of ancient Greece, having a tortoise-shell resonator (or its imitation in wood), skin belly, two carved arms projecting from the bowl and connected at the top by a crossbar, and a variable number of gut strings of equal length.
lyras
Accepted term: 10-Mar-2025