Bear with lute-family instrument

Bear playing an unknown instrument. Possible instruments include rubab, Coptic lute, pandura. Painted between 624-643 A.D. Paintings "represent the transition between Byzantine culture and the new Islamic era."
Country: Jordan
Site: Qusayr 'Amra
Caption: Detail of a bear playing a lute in the southern wall of the frigidarium
Image Date: May 2009
Photographer: Gaetano Palumbo
Provenance: Site Visit

Original: digital CD ETH011 (shared with images from Ethiopia, Lalibela site visit)