The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . iv, pi. xlviii. fig. i,and in J. N. von Wilmowskys Eine romische Villa zu Nennig(Bonn, 1865), pi. xii. (mosaics), where the buccinator is accom-panied on the hydraulus. The mihtary buccina described isa much more advanced instrument than its prototype thebuccina marina, a primitive trumpet in the shape of a conicalshell, often having a spiral twist, which in poetry is often calledconcha. The buccina marina is frequently depicted in the handsof Tritons (Macrobius i. 8), or of sailors, as for instanc
The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . iv, pi. xlviii. fig. i,and in J. N. von Wilmowskys Eine romische Villa zu Nennig(Bonn, 1865), pi. xii. (mosaics), where the buccinator is accom-panied on the hydraulus. The mihtary buccina described isa much more advanced instrument than its prototype thebuccina marina, a primitive trumpet in the shape of a conicalshell, often having a spiral twist, which in poetry is often calledconcha. The buccina marina is frequently depicted in the handsof Tritons (Macrobius i. 8), or of sailors, as for instance onterra-cotta lamp shown by G. P. BeUori (Lucernae veterum sepulcrales iconicae, 1702,iii. 12). The highly im-aginative writer of theapocryphal letter of StJerome to Dardanus alsohas a word to say con-cerning the buccina amongthe Semitic races: Buccavocaturtuba apud Hebreos:deinde per diminutionembuccina dicitur. After thefall of the Roman empirethe art of bending metaltubes was gradually lost,and although the buccinasurvived in Europe bothin name and in principleof construction during the. Fig. 3.—Busine, 14th century.(From MS. R. 10 E. IV. Brit. Mus.) middle ages, it lost for ever the characteristic curve hke a C which it possessed in common with the cornu, an in-strument having a conical bore of wider calibre. Althoughwe regard the buccina as essentially Roman, an instrument For another instance see Caesar, Comm. Bell. Civ. ii. 35. ^ Vegetius, op. cit. iii. 5. Idem, ii. 7. Idem, iii. 5. ^ A reprint edited by Ulysse Robert has been published by theSec. des Anciens Textes Frangais (Paris, 1897). ^ See Conrad Cichorius, Die Reliefs der Traiansdule, 3 vols, oftext and 2 portfolios of heliogravures (Berlin, 1896, &c.), Bd. i. pi. and tubae; pi. viii. buccina; pi. Ixxvi. buccina and twocornua; pi. xx. cornu, &c.; or W. Froehner, La Colonne de Trajan(Paris, 1872), vol. i. pi. xxxii., xxxvi., Ii., tome ii. pi. Ixvi., tome cxxxiv., &c. of the same type, but prob
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