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- noun An ancient
Greek orRoman shrine consecrated to waternymphs , often with afountain .
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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 2003
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A visitor may walk behind the water through the rusticated arcade of the concave nymphaeum, which is peopled by marble nymphas.
TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The buildings of major importance include the theater, octagonus, monumental gate, nymphaeum and the necropolis.
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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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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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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.
Log of the Eclipse (5) Walter Jon Williams 2006
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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.
Log of the Eclipse (5) Walter Jon Williams 2006
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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.
Archive 2006-05-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006
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