- Fredrik Tobin –
which was made from tortoise shell or a wooden imitation of such a shell. The barbiton
(Fig. 46.7) looks very similar to the chelys lyra but has longer arms (and consequently
longer strings) that diverge as they extend from the body and curve in sharply at the top.
The concert kithara (Fig. 46.8) is a fl at bottom lyre with very elaborately constructed
arms. Neither the barbiton^28 nor the concert kithara^29 are common in Etruscan images.
Oddities in some of the depictions of concert kitharas have even led to the suggestion
that the Etruscan painters didn’t actually see the instrument themselves but worked only
from Greek images.^30
Figure 46.7 Drawing of a barbiton in Tomba del Triclinio, Tarquinia.Figure 46.8 Mirror, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, of a youth holding a concert kithara,
400–350 bce. Drawing by Richard de Puma.