A type of [sc. musical] instrument.
West (below) 77: "[t]he
nablas or
nabla was a Phoenician harp that arrived in Greece about the end of the fourth century BC. Its sound is described as 'throaty'. It was played without a plectrum, and was regarded as suitable for merrymaking."
See also LSJ(9) s.v.
νάβλα, ἡ : "
a musical instrument of ten or (acc. to J[osephus] AJ 7.12.3)
of twelve strings, cj. in S[ophocles] Fr.849, cf. LXX 1 Ki.10.5, al.:--also
ναβλας, -α, ὁ , Sopat[er fr.] 16, Philem[on fr.] 44, Str[abo] 10.3.17; cf.
ναῦλον I. (Semitic word, cf. Hebr. � ֵבֶל
nēbel; Phoenician, acc. to Ath[enaeus] 4.175b.).
cf.
psi 15.
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992)
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