Aquincum Museum
Roman archaeological museum displaying finds from an ancient provincial capital, including a rare intact water organ.
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This guide to the Aquincum Museum in Budapest opens with a 1931 discovery: workers digging foundations for an electricity station uncover nearly four hundred fragments of a Roman musical instrument, silent for sixteen hundred years. Archaeologist Lajos Nagy identifies it as a water organ, and the guide traces it back to a fire that swept through the Roman town of Aquincum in the third century, and to the local official who had paid for the organ decades earlier. Look for the inscribed panel naming the two consuls of that year.
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