Tuba Players on Bas Relief

Iconography | IC018

Find Spot: Arch of Constantine

Date of Illustration: ca. 550 CE

Description: Two players blow parallel-bored tubae in Suovetaurilium. Instruments have large,oddly-shaped mouthpieces.

Citations: Quasten 1930: Taf. 5; Strong 1926: 251, Figure 156; Ryberg 1955: 115, Figure 59, Plate XL