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See: Cymbalum The instrument continued to be used in a modified form through the early medieval period. The variant illustrated in the Byzantine and Carolingian Empires consisted of a forked stick with cymbals attached to the ends. File:Pedieus Painter ARV 86 5 dancing maenad with krotala (01).jpg|Circa 520-510 B.C., Athens. Dancing maenad with krotala. File:Krotala player, from the Mosaic of the Female Musicians, Mariamin.jpg|4th century A.D., Byzantine Empire. Krotala player, from the Mosaic of the Female Musicians, Mariamin. The crotala and cymbala were played by musicians in the same group. File:Maenads dancing in Dionysus's Procession from a 4th century mosiac in Augusta Traiana, Byzantine Empire, now Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.jpg|4th century A.D. Mosaic from the city of
Augusta Traiana showing
maenads dancing with
Dionysus, playing krotalum and cymbalum (finger cymbals) . File:Aeman holding clappers in the Charles the Bald Bible, illustrated by Master C.jpg|9th century A.D., Carolingian Empire. Aeman playing
crotals, showing a blending of ancient traditions in the medieval period; in the Carolingian Renaissance, the Roman
cymbala cymbals were attached to "forked sticks" to make the crotals. ==References==