CINYRA, in the Jewish antiquities, a musical in-
strument. This, and the Hebrew cinnor, which is
generally translated cithara, lyra, or psalterium, are
the same. It was made of wood, and was played on
the temple of Jerusalem. Josephus says that the cinyra
of the temple had ten strings, and that it was touched
with a bow. In another place he says that Solomon
made a great number of them with a precious kind of
metal called elistrum; wherein he contradicts the scrip-
ture, which inform us that Solomon's cinnors were
made of wood.