I recently visited the Vatican museum in Rome, and they had an ancient Roman or Greek statue of a seated woman holding a round drum vertically and playing it with a stick, just the way a person plays a bodhran.

The drum was smaller than a modern bodhran, but even if the ancients had played bigger drums, they wouldn't have carved them, because nothing as big as a bodhran would last long as part of a statue.

We took a picture of the statue.