{"id":"MUS2026-200","label":"Amaseno moscono, Monti Lepini","people_or_site":"Amaseno (FR), Lazio","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Lazio / Monti Lepini","macroregion":"Europe / Mediterranean","local_name":"moscono","source_term":"moscono","source_language":"","object_description":"Carved wooden blade with bevelled edges, pierced for a cord that is fixed to a rod handle; made by Martino Realacci before 1987. EtnoMuseo Monti Lepini, Roccagorga; ICCD 1200652143.","function_summary":"Play: gripped by the rod handle and whirled overhead on its cord. Recorded in the 1995 folk-instrument survey of the Monti Lepini; neighboring Sezze used the simpler hand-held moscone at Carnival.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"review2026","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/DemoEthnoAnthropologicalHeritage/1200652143","page_or_plate":"ICCD 1200652143","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Amaseno village center (the card's luogo di rilevamento); the museum sits at Roccagorga and is not the plotted point.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the Monti Lepini country of southern Lazio the whirled rombo lived on into living memory in two shapes. At Sezze a simple round-headed board called the moscone — the 'big fly', after its buzz — spun straight from the player's hand at Carnival. At Amaseno, Martino Realacci carved this fuller rig: blade, cord, and a rod handle gripped while the blade circles overhead.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"moscono (cf. Italian moscone, 'big fly / bluebottle') — named for the buzz.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali (ICCD), scheda BDM 1200652143, 'moscono (rombo aerofono)' (Amaseno; maker Martino Realacci, before 1987)","url":"https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/DemoEthnoAnthropologicalHeritage/1200652143","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260211054548/https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/DemoEthnoAnthropologicalHeritage/1200652143"}],"source_citations":"Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali (ICCD), scheda BDM 1200652143, 'moscono (rombo aerofono)' (Amaseno; maker Martino Realacci, before 1987)","source_display":"Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali (ICCD), scheda BDM 1200652143, 'moscono (rombo aerofono)' (Amaseno; maker Martino Realacci, before 1987)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Carved wooden blade with bevelled edges, pierced for a cord that is fixed to a rod handle; made by Martino Realacci before 1987. EtnoMuseo Monti Lepini, Roccagorga; ICCD 1200652143.","function_display":"Play: gripped by the rod handle and whirled overhead on its cord. Recorded in the 1995 folk-instrument survey of the Monti Lepini; neighboring Sezze used the simpler hand-held moscone at Carnival.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"amaseno","display_name":"Amaseno moscono, Monti Lepini","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/MUS2026-119_prm_1902_16_1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/thumbs/MUS2026-119_prm_1902_16_1_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Suffolk woozer: a palm-sized blade sawn into deep teeth along both edges.","credit":"© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (acc. 1902.16.1)","license":"© Pitt Rivers Museum — non-commercial/educational reuse with attribution","source_page":"https://prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-39643","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The Suffolk woozer: a palm-sized blade sawn into deep teeth along both edges","pool_id":"auto-review_2026_07_18--MUS2026-119_prm_1902_16_1","auto_assigned":true},"slug":"mus2026-200-amaseno-fr-lazio"}