LIVING AND DOCUMENTED CULTURE · 01

The auletris of Osuna

A funerary relief from Osuna shows a performer playing a double-pipe instrument.

Museum documentation · free public access, no account required.

Image of the auletris of Osuna — **DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS**
Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis
Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

History and context

Documents instrument, posture and social image; does not preserve the melody nor demonstrate that all performers shared the same status.

Evidence and interpretation

Synthesis based on National Archaeological Museum · Auletrix; Museum of Prehistory of Valencia · Iberian world; Museum of Jaén · El Pajarillo. The comparison serves to formulate questions, not to fill gaps in the record with certainties.

Catalogue facts

Civilisation or trajectory: Iberian peoples of the peninsula
Scope: Music and sound
Main area: Mediterranean façade and south of the Iberian peninsula, with communities, languages and trajectories different.

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: September 5, 2026.

From a musical image to a fragment of instrument

The review of the MAN's collections identified a fragment of an aulós from Cabezo de Alcalá, in Azaila. It measures nine centimetres and retains traces of contact with bronze pieces. Its internal bore, perforation and finish allow relating it to Hellenistic instruments formed by bone sections and metal rings. This material evidence complements the Osuna performer: one thing is recognising a represented instrument, another studying how it was constructed. Neither alone recovers the music performed.

Research · R. Jiménez Pasalodos and collaborators · The aulós fragment identified in the National Archaeological Museum and its Mediterranean context, AbantosAccess recorded: September 5, 2026.

Location and territory

REGIONAL AREA

Mediterranean façade and peninsular south; not all Iberia was IberianMediterranean fringe and southern peninsula; not all Iberia was Iberian. The footprint indicates the orientative centre of the area, not a boundary nor an exact point.

Sources and references

Consult the sources of this cultural synthesis

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