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A ‘Bull Cult’ in Late Bronze Age Europe: a musical footnote

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J.V.S. Megaw
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Antiquity , Volume 40 , Issue 157 , March 1966 , pp. 56 - 57
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1966

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[1] antiquity, 1945, 217–9. Furthertothe ‘crotals’ mentioned by Dr Coles there are in fact not one but two other than those from Dowris—one admittedly unprovenanced: George Eógan, P.P.S., XXX, 1964,307.

[2] de Vries, J., Keltische Religion (1961), 176–90Google Scholar; Megaw, J. V. S., Ant. J., XLII, 1962, 26–7 Google Scholar.

[3] Coles, J. M., P.P.S., XXIX, 1963, 341–3 Google Scholar.

[4] Ibid., fig. 6.

[5] Galpin Soc. J., XVI, 1963, 90, 92 and Table 2; cf. P.P.S., XXIX, 346–7.

[6] Kirby, P. R., J.R.A.I. , 76/77, 1947–8, 33–45 Google Scholar.

[7] Op. cit., 347, n. 9.

[8] Megaw, op. cit. [5], Table 1.

[9] Seewald, O., Beiträge zur Kenntnis der stein- zeitlichen Musikinstrumente Europas (1934), 59–126Google Scholar; id., Mitt. d. Anthrop. Ges. Wien, XCII, 1962, 259–65. For an illustration of a most effective reconstruction of two Czech TRB examples see Harrison, Frank and Rimmer, Joan, European Musical Instruments (1964), pl. 8Google Scholar; for modem ethnographic parallels cf. Wachsman, K. P. in (ed.) Baines, Anthony, Musical Instruments through the Ages (1961), 34–5Google Scholar; Behrens, H., Ausgrabungen und Funde, VIII, 1963 Google Scholar, 23–6 —this last in connexion with a veritable bass drum of the Bernburger Gruppe.

[10] Behn, F., Musikleben in Altertum und frühen Mittelalter (1954), 14–15Google Scholar and pl. 7, fig. 15; Seewald, , Oberösterr. Heimatblattern 14, 1960, 18 Google Scholar6.

[11] British Museum, Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, reg. no. 1868, 12–18, 217.