130 The Tritopatores or Tritopatreis
Athens in the first century B.C. and better known to us as the 'Tower
of the Winds,' was an octagonal structure of white marble containing
a water-clock. The upper part of its exterior was decorated with
eight reliefs of the wind-gods, arranged in accordance with the
wind-rose of Eratosthenes1,—Boreas, Kaikias, Apeliotes, Euros,
Fig. 49.
Notos, Lips, Zephyros, Skiron. And the roof was crowned by the
bronze figure of a Triton, who swung round in the wind and pointed
with his rod to the appropriate deity2.
1 H. Steinmetz De ventdrum descriptiombus apud Graecos Romanosque Gottingae I9°7
pp. 42 ff., 80, id. 'Windgotter' in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 19:0 xxv. 34
2 Vitr. 1. 6. 4, cp. Varr. rer. rust. 3. 5. 17.
Athens in the first century B.C. and better known to us as the 'Tower
of the Winds,' was an octagonal structure of white marble containing
a water-clock. The upper part of its exterior was decorated with
eight reliefs of the wind-gods, arranged in accordance with the
wind-rose of Eratosthenes1,—Boreas, Kaikias, Apeliotes, Euros,
Fig. 49.
Notos, Lips, Zephyros, Skiron. And the roof was crowned by the
bronze figure of a Triton, who swung round in the wind and pointed
with his rod to the appropriate deity2.
1 H. Steinmetz De ventdrum descriptiombus apud Graecos Romanosque Gottingae I9°7
pp. 42 ff., 80, id. 'Windgotter' in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 19:0 xxv. 34
2 Vitr. 1. 6. 4, cp. Varr. rer. rust. 3. 5. 17.