Re: The largest Roman mosaic, soon to be open to the public in Cuenca (Spain)

Ralph Hancock <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 04:15:42 +0100

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In this very interesting discovery, one thing intrigues me particularly.
This image --

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fep00.epimg.net%2Felpais%2Fimagenes%2F2019%2F06%2F07%2Falbum%2F1559898287_089991_1559898413_album_normal.jpg&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C7599335953c84a06177c08d6ed51f3c9%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636957333571613443&amp;sdata=sOXM5L92m0z7kfeuleON5UnQxL%2Bu7%2Bg3LwotWzpMMVQ%3D&amp;reserved=0

-- shows an organ. But it is not a classical _hydraulus_ worked by water
pressure, because there is a boy in the foreground pumping a bellows. Is
this the earliest representation of an organ of the modern type?

(Incidentally, when my father was at school he was set to pump the bellows
of the organ in the school chapel. During a long boring sermon he went to
sleep, and when the following hymn was announced all the organ could manage
was a dying wheeze. He was beaten, as he deserved.)

RH