Musicians with giant lyre

Reign of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, 1351–1348 B.C
Sandstone
Luxor Museum, Luxor

These musicians might have been playing at a court function or a religious ceremony. On the left is a band of Egyptian women, playing two lyres, a lute, and a double oboe while one woman claps her hands. On the right foreign musicians in long garments and peaked caps, probably from the Near East, play the giant lyre, an Amarna Period novelty that required two players.