Tower of the winds Forum built in Athens in the Roman period east of the classical agora Athens Greece Greek

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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 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. Remains of the Forum built in Athens in the Roman period (east of the classical agora) Remains of the west gate into the Roman ForumThe Roman Forum of Athens is located to the north of the Acropolis and to the east of the original classical Greek agora.

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