Double pipes

Double pipes the common form of pipe during antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The earliest extant specimens are from Ur and date from ca. 2700 B.C., now preserved in the University Museum at Philadelphia. They are some 30 cm. (12 in.) long and made of silver. Toward the middle of the second millennium B.C. double pipes were introduced into Egypt. Specimens with unequal holes have been found in Egyptian tombs (4 holes in 1 pipe, 3 in the other). The divergent pipes, which Sachs and Schaeffner…