Encore des percussions : observations sur /tigi/ et /adab/

Abstract

Due to the difficulties for matching iconographic and textual evidence, study of percussion instruments in ancient Mesopotamia according to the Sumero-Akkadian terminology is still a controversial matter. That is the case of the Sumerian words /tigi/ and /adab/, whose identification as percussion instruments has been recently dismissed. That they still do refer to percussion instruments in some excerpts, however, will be proved in this paper.

Keywords

• sumerian language
• percussion
• hymn
• lyre
• musician