Plagiaulos

Plagiaulos [Gk. plagios, oblique + aulos, pipe], aulos of late antiquity, a transverse monaulos held obliquely or like a cross flute, with the reed inserted into a lateral protuberance near the end. Several instrs. believed to represent pla-giauloi have survived: 2 in the British Museum, sections of 1 in Boston. Those of the British Museum are of bronze, with vestiges of a wooden pipe inside 1 of the 2. The upper end of 1 pipe is stopped; the other is incomplete. On both an oblique tube…