Crossword-Solution: SISTRA 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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.

Then, as the Goddess passed, once more came the faint and dreadful music of the shaken sistra, and all was still.

Here and there, in the tumult of conversations and cries, were mingled sounds of the Egyptian sistra, of the sambuké, or of Grecian flutes.

The music changed into a disordered and wild outburst of citharas, lutes, Armenian cymbals, Egyptian sistra, trumpets, and horns.

Then he began to glance over the list and read: “Tigellinus, Vatinius, Sextus Africanus, Aquilinus Regulus, Suilius Nerulinus, Eprius Marcellus, and so on! What an assembly of ruffians and scoundrels! And to say that they govern the world! Would it not become them better to exhibit an Egyptian or Syrian divinity through villages, jingle sistra, and earn their bread by telling fortunes or dancing?” “Or exhibiting learned monkeys, calculating dogs, or a flute-playing ass,” added Petronius.