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Music from ancient Meroë : reconstructing Queen Amanishakheto's auloi /

"The story of reconstructing the auloi (double-piped flutes) of Meroe from a jumble of fragments into six auloi with twelve pipes. The reconstruction took twelve years, beginning in 2013. With this volume, we present a contextualized narrative of discovery, detailed documentation of the cache a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gänsicke, Susanne (Author, Editor), Hagel, Stefan (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus, GA : Lockwood Press, 2026.
Subjects:
Musical instruments, Ancient > Sudan > Meroe (Extinct city)
Musical instruments, Ancient > Greece.
Aulos > Sudan > Meroe (Extinct city)
Nubians > Sudan > Meroe (Extinct city) > Antiquities.
Meroe (Extinct city)
Instruments de musique anciens > Grèce.
Méroé (Ville ancienne)
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Lawrence Berman
  • Perspectives / Rita Freed, Darcy Kuronen, Matthew Siegal
  • Preface and acknowledgments / Susanne Gänsicke, Stefan Hagel
  • 1. Ancient Doublepipes / Stefan Hagel
  • 1.1. An Instrument of Its Own Kind
  • 1.2. Construction
  • 2. The Context: Meroë / Denise Doxey
  • 2.1. The Site of Mero͡
  • 2.2. Queen Amanishakheto
  • 2.3. Recovering the Auloi
  • 2.4. Auloi and Dionysus in Kush
  • 3. Research history / Stefan Hagel
  • 3.1. Aulos Research
  • 3.2. The Meroë Auloi Project
  • 4. Conservation / Susanne Gänsicke
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Between 1921 and 2013
  • 4.3. Documentation and Rehousing
  • 4.4. Condition of the Different Materials
  • 4.5. Conservation
  • 5. Description of the Corpus / Stefan Hagel, Susanne Gänsicke
  • 5.1. Materials
  • 5.2. Parts
  • 5.3. Catalogue of the Larger Fragments / Stefan Hagel. Olga Sutkowska
  • 6. Material Analysis / Richard Newman, Susanne Gänsicke, Joel Stephenson, Caroline Cartwright, Daniel Kirby
  • 6.1. Introduction / Richard Newman, Susanne Gänsicke
  • 6.2. X-radiography / Susanne Gänsicke, Richard Newman
  • 6.3. Alloy Analysis / Richard Newman
  • 6.4. Metallography / Richard Newman, Susanne Gänsicke
  • 6.5. Corrosion Analysis / Richard Newman, Susanne Gänsicke
  • 6.6. Radiocarbon Dating / Richard Newman
  • 6.7. Wood Analysis / Caroline Cartwright
  • 6.8. Fiber Analysis / Joel Stephenson
  • 6.9. Bone Identification: Peptide Mass Fingerprinting Analysis (PMF) / Daniel Kirby, Richard Newman
  • 6.10. Observations on Manufacturing Techniques / Susanne Gänsicke
  • 7. Reconstruction and Interpretation / Stefan Hagel
  • 7.1. The Slender Pipes
  • 7.2. The Long Pipes
  • 7.3. Overblowing
  • 7.4. Production and Destruction
  • 7.5. Summary
  • 7.6. Naming the Instruments?
  • 7.7. Methodological Considerations
  • 7.8. Summary of Proposed Arrangements
  • 8. Garstang's Auloi / Stefan Hagel
  • 9. Conclusion: A Tale of the Queen's Pipes / Stefan Hagel.