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Definition of Sistrums

Sistrum
Sistrum Sis"trum, [L., fr. Gr. ???, from ??? to shake.] (Mus.) An instrument consisting of a thin metal frame, through which passed a number of metal rods, and furnished with a handle by which it was shaken and made to rattle. It was peculiarly Egyptian, and used especially in the worship of Isis. It is still used in Nubia.

Meaning of Sistrums from wikipedia

- decorated. Broken Egyptian Sistrum Nefertari, wife of Ramesses II, holding a sekhem-type sistrum Egyptian Sistrum Collection of sistrums at the Louvre Walters...
- 1842 Ricinula undata (Dillwyn, 1817) Sistrum indica G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875 Sistrum undatum (Dillwyn, 1817) Sistrum undatum var. kieneri Dautzenberg &...
- helmet, lance, drum, belt, breastplate Mars 4th Leo (lion) Batillum, sistrum, laurel wreath, thunderbolt Jupiter 5th ****s (Persian) Hooked sword,...
- from alabaster. The goddess was sometimes depicted holding a ceremonial sistrum in one hand and an aegis in the other—the aegis usually resembling a collar...
- portra**** with the sistrum. This is in allusion to his mother Hathor who was ****ociated with the instrument. Ihy's symbols are the sistrum and a necklace...
- Statue of syncretic Goddess ****phone - Isis with a sistrum, Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete...
- include nine lyres (the Lyres of Ur), two harps, a silver double flute, a sistrum and cymbals. A set of reed-sounded silver pipes discovered in Ur was the...
- commonly carried a sistrum or a menat necklace. The sistrum came in two varieties: a simple loop shape or the more complex naos sistrum, which was shaped...
- Byzantine instruments included the guitar, single, double or multiple flute, sistrum, timpani (drum), psaltirio, Sirigs, lyre, cymbals, keras and kanonaki....
- Distinctively Roman statue of Isis holding a sistrum and a situla...