MUS2026-047 - museum specimen
Cypriot
Cyprus (Bronze Age) - Near East
Function not recorded
Source term: bull-roarer
One of five wooden bull-roarers collected in Cyprus by the anthropologist Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton, who came to the island in 1913 to excavate the Bronze Age tombs of Lapithos under John Myres and the Cyprus Museum's curator, Menelaos Markides. Alongside the digging he gathered everyday objects from the villages — hand-loom gear like spindles and loom-treadles, a friction-drum, a sheep-bell, wooden toys — and these five noisemakers from Akanthou, Lapethos, Enkomi, and Karabas, which he presented to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in 1914. The museum's record lists them but says nothing of how they were used.
5 wooden "bull-roarers", Akanthou, Lapethos, Enkomi, and Karabas
Report of the Pitt Rivers Museum for 1914 (objects presented by H. L. Dudley Buxton)
- Object
- Bull-roarer of the Cypriot, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (acc. 1914.53.9).
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- medium - approximate culture/locality centroid
- Source location
- 1914.53.9