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| c. 2800 B.C.E.–c. 1100 B.C.E. | During the Aegean Bronze Age, musicians and musical instruments are depicted in frescoes, on vases and seal stones, and in sculpture. Fragments of lyres, pipes, percussion instruments, and triton horns survive from this period. |
| c. 2200 B.C.E. | Figurines from the Cycladic Islands depict Bronze-Age Aegean musicians holding the frame harp, the aulos (reed pipe), and the syrinx (pan-pipe). |
| c. 1490 B.C.E. | A Bronze-Age painted sarcophagus from Ayia Triada, Crete, illustrates musicians playing the phorminx (lyre) and aulos during a ritual sacrifice. |
| c. 1100 B.C.E. | A miniature bronze votive kithara (lyre) from the Sanctuary of Apollo at Amyklai (near Sparta) is the earliest representation of the type that would become popular in the classical period (480–323 B.C.E.). |
| c. 800 B.C.E.–c. 700 B.C.E. | During the Early Archaic Period, the... |
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