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Drawing on an analytic-descriptive approach, the present study seeks to highlight the salient musical instruments used in the Funerals in Yemen. The data utilized for analysis and description comprise fourteen pictures of Greece with reference to Yemen as the locale of research. The significance of the data can be attributed to its locus on the utility of musical instruments as being part of classical civilization in general and the Arab Peninsula in particular, where Yemen conics to the analytic fore, Towards this end, certain descriptive and historical tools of visual art have been employed (Plutarch, On Music). Thus, the present study can be deemed to break new grounds in the field of archaeological visual arts of music. The study has reached a number of significant findings. First. Yemen had historically demonstrated a profound interest in the artistic description of musical funerary ceremonies, which reflects a predilection for musical performance in ancient oriental countries. Second, there had been a special emphasis on the utility of the 'Lyra' as a musical instrument that had been crucial to the funerary ceremonies in Yemen. Third, such a musical instrument had had oriental roots in history. Mainly evidenced with Yemen as a rich model for the raw materials processed in the making of funerary artifacts. Finally, playing musical instruments were not confined to the class of slaves; rather, it had always been such an object of authentic practice and interest for masters all throughout their lives.
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