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Wikipedia: The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion (timepiece), is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower on the Roman agora in Athens. The structure features a combination of sundials, a water clock and a wind vane. It was supposedly built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, but according to other sources might have been constructed in the 2nd century BC before the rest of the forum.
![[General view of the tower, from Stuart & Revett's The Antiquities of Athens, 1762]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/StuartRevettTowerLandscape_s.jpg "General view of the tower, from Stuart & Revett's The Antiquities of Athens, 1762")
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![[Tower of the Winds at Athens.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Tower_of_the_Winds_Athen_s.jpg "Tower of the Winds at Athens.")
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![[The Tower of the Winds, with the frieze showing the wind gods Boreas and Skiron (northwesterly wind, on the right]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Tower_of_the_Winds_frieze_detail_s.jpg "The Tower of the Winds, with the frieze showing the wind gods Boreas and Skiron (northwesterly wind, on the right")
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![[Tower of the Winds, Athens]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Tower_of_the_Winds_s.jpg "Tower of the Winds, Athens")
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![[Source: JSTOR copy of Noble & Price's "The Water Clock in the Tower of the Winds", image originally from Stuart &...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/StuartRevettTower_v2_s.jpg "Source: JSTOR copy of Noble & Price's \"The Water Clock in the Tower of the Winds\", image originally from Stuart &...")
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![[The Tower of the Winds in Sevastopol]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Tower_of_the_Winds_in_Sevastopol_s.jpg "The Tower of the Winds in Sevastopol")
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![[The Tower of the Winds in Sevastopol]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/_D0_91_D0_B0_D1_88_D0_BD_D1_8F_D0_B2_D0_B5_D1_82_D1_80_D0_BE_D0_B2_D0_A1_D0_B5_D0_B2_D0_B0_D1_81_D1_82_D0_BE_D0_BF_D0_BE_D0_BB_D1_8C_s.jpg "The Tower of the Winds in Sevastopol")
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![[Layout of the interior of the tower, from Stuart & Revett's The Antiquities of Athens]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/StuartRevettTowerLayout_s.jpg "Layout of the interior of the tower, from Stuart & Revett's The Antiquities of Athens")
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