sistrum

• Her temple duties are illustrated by a selection of objects she would have used including a sistrum, an ivory clapper, a harp, and cult vessels. —  Egyptology News
• Musical instruments (a delicate harp, ivory clapper and sistrum or rattle) and other religious objects, all related to divinatory and animal cultic rituals, are included in the museum's revelatory presentation. —  Egyptology News
• The arms appear to terminate in small rectangular bells or plates, and it is supposed that the standard frame was intended to be shaken like a sistrum in order to set the bells jangling. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• She sometimes filled a gracious and beneficent rôle, protecting men against contagious diseases or evil spirits, keeping them off by the music of her sistrum: she had also her hours of treacherous perversity, during which she played with her victim as with a mouse, before finishing him off with a blow of her claws. —  The Green Eyes of Bâst
• It is in fact a sistrum, in which the regular proportions of the parts are disregarded. —  Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt

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