Tower of the Winds, Athens

Tower of the Winds, Athens

View from NE

The Tower of the Winds, named from the sculptured reliefs of wind-god that make up a frieze marking the cardinal directions on its eight sides, is located in the Roman Agora in Athens. The tower included a combination of sundials, a water clock, and a wind vane in the form of a triton. Vitruvius says that it was built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, but archaeological evidence suggests that it may have been constructed in the 2nd century BCE before the rest of the forum.

Andronikos of Kyrrhos (Greek astronomer and architect, active late 2nd-early 1st centuries BCE)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Torre_dels_Vents_d%27Atenes.JPG#file

Photographer: Joanbanjo

Image: April 11, 2011

100-50 BCE

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Berwind Mausoleum, West Laurel Hill Cemetery

marble

12 meters high, 8 meters in diameter

horologion, sundial, clepsydra, water clock

CP2014-033

Greek (Classical)

Hellenistic

Athens, Greece