Editing Lyre (section)

====Giant lyres====
Giant lyres are a type of flat-based eastern lyre of immense size that typically required two players. Played from a standing position, the instrument stood taller than the instrumentalists. The oldest extent example of the instrument was found in the ancient city of [[Uruk]] in what is present day Iraq, and dates to c. 2500 BCE. Well preserved giant lyres dating to c. 1600 BCE have been found in Anatolia. The instrument reached the height of its popularity in [[Ancient Egypt]] during the reign of [[Pharaoh]] [[Akhenaten]] (c. 1353—1336 BCE). A giant lyre found in the ancient city of [[Susa]] (c. 2500 BCE) is suspected to have been played by only a single instrumentalist, and giant lyres in Egypt dating from the [[Hellenistic period]] most likely also required only a single player.<ref name="Grove"/>

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File:Woman playing lyre, Egypt 4th century AD,.jpg|Terracotta figurine of a woman with a lyre, Egypt, 4th century A.D.
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