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. chordophones
8. lyres
9. bowl lyres

Anotations

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.