Newspaper articles - miscellaneous (part 3).

Abstract

"The earliest Latin wood for bell campana is late Latin of the 4th or 5th century A. S. and the first application of bells to churches has been ascribed to Paulinus, bishop of Nola in Campania about A. D. 400. ..Of bells before the Christian era there is no trustworthy evidence. The instruments which summoned the Romans to public baths or processions or that which Lucian, A. D. 180 describes as set in motion by a water clock, clepsydra, to measure time, were probably cymbals or resonant plates of metal like the timbrels, used in the worship of Cybele, or the Egyptian sistrum which seems to have been a sort of rattle."