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Name Location Era Image Argyrocastrou Square fountain: Rhodes (city) Knights period: Abdulhamid Pasha fountain: Chios (town) Ottoman period: Bembo fountain
Hellenistic fountain head from the Pergamon museum. Greek fountains were made of stone or marble, with water flowing through bronze pipes and emerging from the mouth of a sculpted mask that represented the head of a lion or the muzzle of an animal.
The Fountain of Peirene. Pirene or Peirene (Greek: Πειρήνη) is the name of a fountain or spring in Greek mythology, physically located in Corinth. [1] It was said to be a favored watering-hole of Pegasus, sacred to the Muses. Poets would travel there to drink and receive inspiration.
The Fountain of Arethusa (Italian: Fonte Aretusa, Ancient Greek: Ἀρέθουσα [1]) is a natural spring on the island of Ortygia in the historical centre of the city of Syracuse in Sicily. According to Greek mythology , this freshwater fountain is the place where the nymph Arethusa , the patron figure of ancient Syracuse, returned to Earth ...
Empedo, argues Parsons, was the name of the spring and Klepsydra the name given to the water made available by the fountain house. [4] It would seem that Empedo was also the name of the tutelary deity of the spring – an Attic nymph. [5] Mention is also made of the fountain by Aristophanes, [6] Pausanias, [7] and Plutarch. [8]
The Athenebrunnen (or Fountain of Pallas Athena) is a fountain that bears the name of the Greek goddess Athena and is along Jean-Amery-Weg towards Karlsruhe in the western part of Stuttgart. [n 1] It is a creation of Karl Donndorf [Wikidata] (1870–1941), dating from 1911. This fountain, important both culturally and historically, has been ...
The Latona Fountain in the Gardens of Versailles lies in the Latona Basin between the Palace of Versailles and the Grand Canal. On the top tier, there is a statue of the goddess Latona , mother of the sun and moon gods. [ 1 ]
Throughout the city, fountains and wellheads were adorned with garlands. [1] Fontus was the son of Juturna and Janus. [2] Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, was supposed to have been buried near the altar of Fontus (ara Fontis) on the Janiculum. [3]