Branch with birds
Bronze, 1st cent. A.D. Pompeii, House of M. Fabius Rufus, VII, 16, 22 Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 14142
This singular artifact, perhaps part of a larger object, may be a replica without mechanism of the singing birds, operating on water and air, precisely described in Heron of Alexandria's Pneumatics.
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