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Modern Description: "Pnyx fountain house: A rock-cut cistern/spring with steps SE of the Pnyx is related to the monumental water supply project of Peisistratus (6th century BC). Locked gate
[Judith Binder: Fountain House: Dörpfeldʼs Enneakrounos, west of the Amyneion, linked to an elaborate water supply system with an earlier spring house extending under Apostolou Pavlou St. and along the Pnyx slope: Graber, F. 1905, 1-64, figs. 1-32, pls. 1-3
For Dörpfeldʼs Kailirrhoe spring ""in a rock-cut complex composed of steps, a chamber, a niche with a well and a passageway leading to a cistern,"" on the Pnyx east slope at the east edge of Apostolou Pavlou St., see Wickens, J. M. 1986, 321 under no. 59. In May 1997 P. Kalligas reported in a lecture to the Friends of the Akropolis that the Archaeological Service has investigated a spring house in a cave with mosaic floor on the Pnyx side of Apostolou Pavlou St., which must be the spring house studied by F. Graber, op. cit,, 9-11, figs. 1-3, pls. 1-3 (Felskammer Y); K. Lazaridi, «Αόφος Πνυκάς,» Deltion 52 (1997) B1 Chr., 41, pl. 23]
Trismegistos Geo: 364"

Info: A.E.

(Aspa Efstathiou, ToposText volunteer)

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