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Carnyx - Evidence for the carnyx

Carnyx - Evidence for the carnyx: Encyclopedia II - Carnyx - Evidence for the carnyx

Carnyx - Depiction in sculpture. The instrument is known from depictions, on coins, and notably from the initiation scene of the Gundestrup cauldron. Carnyx - Literature. The name is known from textual sources, carnyces are reported from the Celtic attack on the Delphi in 279 BC, as well as from Julius Caesar's campaign in Gaul and Claudius' invasion of Britain. Diodorus Siculus said (Histories, 5.30): Their trumpets again are of a peculiar barbarian kind; they blow into them and produce a harsh sound which suits the tumult of war See also:

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Carnyx: Encyclopedia II - Carnyx - Evidence for the carnyx

Carnyx - Evidence for the carnyx

Carnyx - Depiction in sculpture

The instrument is known from depictions, on coins, and notably from the initiation scene of the Gundestrup cauldron.

Carnyx - Literature

The name is known from textual sources, carnyces are reported from the Celtic attack on the Delphi in 279 BC, as well as from Julius Caesar's campaign in Gaul and Claudius' invasion of Britain. Diodorus Siculus said (Histories, 5.30):

Their trumpets again are of a peculiar barbarian kind; they blow into them and produce a harsh sound which suits the tumult of war

Carnyx - Archaeology

A well preserved example is the Deskford Carnyx, found on the shores of the Moray Firth, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1816. Until 2004, fragments of only four other carnyces had been preserved, but in November 2004 archaeologists discovered a first century BCE foundation deposit of five well preserved carnyxes under a Gallo-Roman fanum at Tintignac (Corrèze, France). Four had boars heads, the fith appears to be a serpent.