The silver trumpet from Tutankhamun’s tomb offers a striking material parallel to the two silver trumpets described in Numbers 10:1–10. Egyptian artifacts, biblical texts, later commentary, and the 1939 BBC recording of King Tut’s trumpets illuminate the passage’s royal, cultic, and military dimensions.
By Gary A. Rendsburg
Rutgers University
Department of Jewish Studies
May 2026
As i recall there was a technical foul up with one of the trumpets before the Bbc recording. The trumpeteer the rvening before thought to do a dress rehearsal. He inserted a mouth piece and blew. The trumpet didnt stand up to the stress and openend possibly along a seam. A very anxious night was spent in repairing the damage. Second. When excavating Jerisalem a high corner stone of an outside wall was discovered. Large dressed limestone with part of the inscription the place of trumpeting.. תקועה..... for announincing the approaching shaBat. as a parallel for your attention to an an article of Natlonal geographic from an edition in the early 1950s on Yemen. One of the photos shows a trumpeter standing on a corner of the city wall his trumpet extended announcing the approaching Friday. Thanks for the article