sistra

Updated: June 25, 2025

You see Isis, as Pelagia, advancing between two ranks, one of joyous maidens in snow-white garments, adorned with wreaths, and scattering from their bosoms all kinds of dewy flowers; the other of youths, playing upon pipes and flutes, mixed with men with shaven shining crowns, playing upon sistra of brass, silver, and gold.

Theodore Watts-Dunton - Aylwin

And ever as we unwound, other ornaments of gold, such as are buried with Pharaohs, fell from the wrappings collars and bracelets, models of sistra, an inlaid axe, and an image of the holy Osiris and of the holy Khem.

Henry Rider Haggard - Cleopatra