This splendidly decorated reservoir was the nymphaeum of the Emperor Alexander Severus, and is represented on a coin.
The quadrata of the Coelian is artificially formed, and was evidently the great nymphaeum connected with the Golden House.
Considerable remains of a nymphaeum were found, and a beautiful aedicula, with its statues in situ; from this some steps led down into a Mithraic cave.
The Nymphaeum probably took its name from the female statues which decorated it, handing down the custom of the ancient Romans in peopling the springs with nymphs.
They belonged to the decorations of the Nymphaeum of Alexander Severus, the picturesque ruins of which are on the Esquiline Hill, and which are represented on a coin.
The so-called Temple of Minerva Medica (now recognized as the Nymphaeum of the Baths of Gallienus, A.
The Nymphaeum was decagonal on plan, so that small pendentives were required to carry the brick dome.
This nymphaeum and aqueduct are built of opera mista, which shows that they are probably the work of the Constantinian Age.
A similar arrangement, he says, may be seen in the remains of the Nymphaeum at Ampiglione.
At the back of the Nymphaeum is a hall called the Sacrarium, in which it is supposed the statue of Serapis stood.
The curved basin of the Nymphaeumcan be traced, though it is now overgrown with trees, and some of the niches still covered with stucco-work remain.
The authors of the Beschreibung Roms supposed that this ruin was the Nymphaeum Alexandri of the Notitia, but this has been disproved by Becker, who shows that the Nymphaeum was near the Villa Altieri.
It is an archednymphaeum of brick, at the back of which a plentiful stream of clear water issues.
They consist of a nymphaeum or grand fountain, and a row of chambers intended for slaves' lodgings.
Teos, and Nymphaeum had some connexion with Athens--at least it appears to have been a member of the Delian Confederacy.
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