Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
5. sound devices (equipment)
6. [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]
7. idiophones
8. struck idiophones
9. directly struck idiophones
10. percussion idiophones
11. percussion idiophones: hollow-bodied
12. [bells and sets of bells]
13. bells (idiophones)
14. suspended bells
15. clapper bells

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Sound Devices
5. sound devices
6. sound devices by function
7. sound signaling devices

Anotations

Scope note:

Small hand-held bells placed on or near the altar in a religious service. Altar bells may be attached to a wooden or other handle, or the handle may be cast as a piece with the bell. The device typically accommodates one or two small bells. An example of such devices is on Christian altars after the 8th century, but similar bells were known in ancient Babylonia, ancient Egypt, Jewish temples, the altars of the Romans and Greeks, and in cultures in China and Hindustan.