Lute (oud ) Origin
The Egyptian lute predates the Greek lute and is basically the same except more slender. No examples of the lute in Greek art are found before the fourth century B.C.
"Mesopotamia is the source of the earliest evidence of lutes in the world: representations on two seals dating back to the Akkadian period (2350 to 2170 B.C.).
The Akkadian period lutes may have originated with West Semitic nomads from Syria. Lutes appeared in Egypt for the first time at the end of the Middle Kingdom Hyksos dynasties (XV to XVII dynasty, 1730 to 1580 B.C.) or the beginning of the succeeding New Kingdom XVIII dynasty (1580 to 1320 B.C.).
This first appearance of the lute in Egypt came approximately one thousand years after the first musical instruments — clap sticks, sistrums, flutes, double clarinets, and harps — were depicted in Old Kingdom Egypt. The eighteenth century B.C. Hyksos invaders, from the Near East, are generally believed to be responsible for the appearance of the lute in Egypt".
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