Fascinating! I like the interesting use of wood to make resonator on this chelys lyre. I only just managed to find the concrete proof in an original ancient text, that also in antiquity, sometimes wood was also definitely used in the form of the tortoise shell: "All the wood required for the lyre is of boxwood, firm and free from knots - there is no ivory anywhere about the lyre, for men did not yet know wither the elephant or the use they were to make of its tusks. The tortoise-shell is black, but its portrayal is accurate and true to nature in that the surface is covered with irregular circles which touch each other and have yellow eyes..." (Philostratus the Elder, "Imagines")
It was the specific line in the text describing the resonator ". The tortoise-shell is black, but its portrayal is accurate and true to nature" - the crucial word to note is 'portrayal'
Fascinating! I like the interesting use of wood to make resonator on this chelys lyre. I only just managed to find the concrete proof in an original ancient text, that also in antiquity, sometimes wood was also definitely used in the form of the tortoise shell: "All the wood required for the lyre is of boxwood, firm and free from knots - there is no ivory anywhere about the lyre, for men did not yet know wither the elephant or the use they were to make of its tusks. The tortoise-shell is black, but its portrayal is accurate and true to nature in that the surface is covered with irregular circles which touch each other and have yellow eyes..." (Philostratus the Elder, "Imagines")
It was the specific line in the text describing the resonator ". The tortoise-shell is black, but its portrayal is accurate and true to nature" - the crucial word to note is 'portrayal'