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crotalum
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thumb|5th century B.C., Attica, by the [[Phiale Painter. Red-figure phiale woman dancing with crotala (Boston MFA 97.371)]] thumb|right|Illustration taken from the drawing of an ancient marble in Jacob Spon|Spon's Miscellanea, representing one of the crotalistriae performing.
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- classical antiquity
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thumb|5th century B.C., Attica, by the [[Phiale Painter. Red-figure phiale woman dancing with crotala (Boston MFA 97.371)]] thumb|right|Illustration taken from the drawing of an ancient marble in Jacob Spon|Spon's Miscellanea, representing one of the crotalistriae performing.
In classical antiquity, a crotalum, (κρόταλον krotalon) plural crotala, was a kind of clapper or castanet used in religious dances by groups in ancient Greece and elsewhere, including the Korybantes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “crotalum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.