© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2013 DOI: 10.1163/22129758-12341239 Greek and Roman Musical Studies 1 (2013) 93-121 brill.com/grms The Daphnē Aulos Stelios Psaroudakēs Department of Music Studies, Section of Historical & Systematic Musicology School of Philosophy, University of Athens 157 84 Zōgraphou, Athens, Hellas spsaroud@music.uoa.gr Abstract The present paper concentrates on one of the musical instruments retrieved from Grave II at Daphnē, the wooden aulos. Only one pipe of the instrument, together with its bulbous mouthpiece, was found. In the organological account which follows, the pipe is described and assessed, and an attempt is made to reconstruct it and discover its scale. Il presente lavoro si concentra su uno degli strumenti musicali recuperati dalla Tomba II a Dafni, l’aulos ligneo. Solo una canna dello strumento, assieme alla sua grossa imboccatura, è stata rinvenuta. Nella descrizione organologica che segue, la canna è descritta e interpretata, ed è fatto un tentativo di ricostruirla e di scoprire la scala da essa prodotta. Keywords organology, Classical Greece, aulos 1. Introduction In his London Times article of May 25th 1981 on the Daphnē excavation, Mario Modiano made no mention of the wooden aulos found in Grave IΙ together with all other artifacts contained in it.1 A year later, Gilles Touchais does men- tion the aulos, describing it as a “wooden instrument resembling a flute”.2 The aulos fragments (together with the other wooden items from Grave II) were strengthened by a special solution, made up of one part movilit, half part ace- tone, and toluole.3 The application of this solution is, presumably, responsible 1  Modiano 1981. 2 Touchais 1982: un instrument en bois qui ressemble à une flute. 3 Peiraias Museum Restoration Diary.