Fig. 2. Robust, vertical, angular harps (first millennia B.C.E. & C.E.).

a. Extant Egyptian harp, 1000-500 B.C.E. (Muse‚e du Louvre, Paris).

b. Terracotta plaque, Persia, 250 B.C.E.-223 C.E. (Colledge, 1967, Pl. 20d).

c. Mosaic, Biæa@pur (Persia), 250-300 c.e. (Muse‚e du Louvre, Paris).

d. Silver vessel, Persia/Central Asia, 8-9th c. C.E. (Farmer, 1966, Pl. 7).

e. Silver vessel, Persia/Central Asia, 8-9th c. C.E. (Gunter and Jett, 1992, p. 163).