Sambuca (instrument)

This article is about an ancient stringed instrument. For other uses, see Sambuca (disambiguation).
1st century CE Roman fresco depicting women in a peristyle, listening to another woman play a kithara (on her knee) and sambuca (on the klinē). National Archaeological Museum, Naples

The sambuca (also sambute, sambiut, sambue, sambuque, or sambuke[1]) was an ancient stringed instrument of Asiatic origin. The term sambuca is also applied to a number of other instruments.

  1. ^ Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.