nymphaeum

• “What is most striking about the nymphaeum is the fact that most of its original statuary seems to be present, collapsed inside the water basin.”

  Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora Report 14

• “A visitor may walk behind the water through the rusticated arcade of the concave nymphaeum, which is peopled by marble nymphas.”

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• “Besides the 4 m tall hero occupying the Northwest Heroon (hero shrine) and the twice-life size statues of Dionysos from the mid-Antonine nymphaeum (fountain house) on the Upper Agora, there is a 5 m tall Apollo statue from the late Hadrianic nymphaeum above the city's Lower Agora.”

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• “The buildings of major importance include the theater, octagonus, monumental gate, nymphaeum and the necropolis.”

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• “Hadrian's connection to the city was also signaled by a gilded statue of Hadrian, possibly erected in ca. A.D. 129-132, housed in the nymphaeum along the major E-W street connecting the Baths with the Apollo Klarios Temple (which at the time of the construction of the Baths still also housed the Imperial cult).”

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• “The newly-discovered Lupercal appears to comprise a natural grotto enlarged by construction to give it the form of a nymphaeum measuring some 9 meters tall and some 7.5 meters in diameter.”

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• “A water channel runs right down the center of the street from the base of the acropolis, where a large nymphaeum was kept full by the water god Kestros.”

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• “There was an elaborate fountain or nymphaeum and a large Roman theater, where carvings of comedy and tragedy masks are still visible on randomly-scattered chunks of ruin.”

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• “Nevertheless, some extraordinary properties are going to come on the market, including a well- preserved 2,000-year-old nymphaeum shrine of the nymphs in central Rome or the Auditorium of Mecenate, which was once the property of the Emperor Tiberius, a former convent and an ex-monastery, various disused barracks and some thundering 19th-century public buildings.”

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• “Preparation of the final anastylosis of the Antonine nymphaeum on the Upper Agora continued.”

  Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Restoration & Conservation Report 5

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