Spelling in Jacquot, according to whom the term is also used to indicate a "large drum of the Greeks, the Romans and the first centuries of the Christian era", addding that "the Egyptians and the Parthians used it only as a military instrument"; NB¹: Stainer, according to whom "the name is only mentioned in the catalogue of musical instruments given in Dan. iii", refers to the Samponia of the Syrian Greeks; He also wonders whether this is "a corruption of the Greek Symphonia (συμφωνία); or, to put the question in other words, did the Greeks give Greek names to Chaldee musical instruments or did the Chaldees (of Mesopotamia) borrow their instruments from Greece?". NB²: ➺ homonym (synonym of Sumphonia).