£45
Medieval Lyre Peg Key. Copper-alloy, 14.82g. 50 mm. Circa 14tth cenrtury CE. Formed of a square sectioned tappering shaft and decorated suspension loop. There is a pair of objects illustrated in Egan (1998, 244; fig. 190) which feature square-shaped apertures. It is posited that these were music keys, used to tighten the square-ended bone keys of stringed musical instruments.
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