All three were made of wood. The bull lyre stood roughly 1.2 meters high. The sound box was defined by a broad border of mosaic in shell, lapis lazuli and red paste, and this border continued onto the ...

The lyre, which is now on display at the British ... Along the panels, lapis lazuli (a blue semiprecious stone), shell and red limestone were set in bitumen — a sticky, black substance used ...