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Modern Description: Tower of the Winds or the Horologion of Andronicus Kyrristus: an octagonal building located in the southeastern side of the Roman Agora in the 1st or 2nd century BC. It was a kind of weather station with a system of sundials and hydraulic clocks and a bronze weather vane on top pointing to sculptural personifications of the eight winds.
[Judith Binder: Andronikos Kyrrhestes: Horologion, the Tower of the Winds, late 2nd c. B.C., Akropolis Lower North Slope: IG II² 1035 lines 54-55; Freeden, J. von 1983; Travlos, J. 1971, 281-288, figs. 49, 362-378]
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Winds
Wikidata ID: Q372717
Trismegistos Geo: 364
DARE: 23850

Info: A.E.

(Aspa Efstathiou, ToposText volunteer)

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