The amulet of the scarab has been found in Egypt in untold thousands, and the varieties are exceedingly numerous. They are made of green basalt, green granite, limestone, green marble, blue paste, blue glass, purple, blue and green glazed porcelain, etc.; and the words of power are usually cut in outline on the base.
Dulcimer, stringed musical instrument, a version of the psaltery in which the strings are beaten with small hammers rather than plucked.
The hammered dulcimer has a trapezoidal-shaped sound box with metal strings running parallel to the long side of the instrument in sets called courses of 2 to 4 strings each. The strings are divided into unequal lengths by at least 2 long, high bridges.n Spain a dulcimer-like instrument is depicted on a cathedral relief from 1184 A.D. Hammered dulcimers were popular in England during the reign of James I, when the Bible was translated into English as the King James Bible.