Organist and Horn Player Games, gladiatorial contests, and other events in the cities of the Roman Empire were often accompanied by music. In this floor mosaic from a villa in Nennig, Germany, built in the third century, a horn player plays a large curved instrument known as a cornu, which was also used by the military to call troops. The organist plays a water organ (hydraulis) in which water stored in the hexagonal podium was pumped through tubes and the force of the water pushed air through the organ pipes.
(Museum für Vor und Frühgeschichte, Saarbrücken, Germany/Bridgeman Images)