Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Harpa

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A harp, with a curved back in the form of a sickle (ἅρπη, falx), like the annexed ex

Harpa. (Egyptian.)

ample, from an Egyptian painting. (See Venant. Carm. vii. 8.63, in which passage it is expressly distinguished from the lyre, and as an instrument used by foreigners.)

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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