The Funerary Stele of Autun

This is an uninscribed funerary stele from the outskirts of Autun, preserved in the Museum of that city. The deceased can be seen, certainly a professional musician, dressed in a wide cloak with broad sleeves, holding in his hand a long tibia. To his right an instrument of six or seven pipes decreasing from right to left is depicted. One is entitled to think this is an organ rather than a large syrinx, the latter being normally arranged in the opposite direction. A wind chest supports the pipes and the whole appears to rest on a table; neither cistern nor plinth can be distinguished. This is in all probability a small pneumatic organ.