Lute

90-2-8

From: Iran

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 90-2-8
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iran
Section Near Eastern
Materials Wood
Description

Wooden, pear-shaped instrument with long round neck. Soundboard made from two pieces. Small holes in soundboard in a rough pattern. 11 frets of bound string. 2 pegs in tri-lobed shape (1 frontal, 1 lateral). Poor condition- part of soundboard missing, part detached. Strings missing.

Length: 85 cm. Body depth: 12 cm. Soundboard width: 15 cm.

Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1990
Other Number C-58 - Seder Number

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