Tower of the Winds
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Denitsa Dzhigova, Tom Elliott
Creators: Denitsa Dzhigova, Tom Elliott
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 16, 2020 05:30 PM
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History
tags:
Pentelic marble,
extant remains
Also known as the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes, the Tower of the Winds is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower located in the "Roman" Agora that functioned as a horologion.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89350791
37.974182937, 23.7270164638
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tower of the Winds (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Tower of the Winds (English, modern)
- Tower of the Winds located at Roman Agora of Athens (unspecified date range)
- Less than certain: Diogeneion located east of Tower of the Winds (330 BC - AD 300)
monument
Pleiades
Denitsa Dzhigova, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Tower of the Winds: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89350791> [accessed: 17 April 2024]
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