An Egyptian Wood Clapper, ex MMA, Late Middle Kingdom – Early New Kingdom, ca. 1802–1450 BCE court And Light Blue

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An Egyptian Wood Clapper, ex MMA, Late Middle Kingdom – Early New Kingdom, ca. 1802–1450 BCE court And Light BlueAncient Egyptian clappers, of ivory, bone, or wood, usually in pairs, are common in tombs of the Eleventh and Twelfth Dynasties at Thebes and el Lisht. They may have been placed in the tombs as an amuletic or a purely mechanical means of exorcising evil spirits, which are notoriously averse to noise and noisemakers. Such clappers, however, were also used by living Egyptians to accompany and beat out the time for their dances, especially temple dances,