The water which is called as Hypelaia is inside this structure. Some reliefs of the roof and frieze pieces were found in the excavations and the pieces show that the building was built in the 2nd century B.C. It consists of Ionic style at the upper level and Doric style in lower level.
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The Fountain of the Vity-Founder Androklos: It is a fountain building which was erected in honor of King Androklos, mythological founder of Ephesus and is situated in the north of Curetes Street. Find the best Octagon Windows for your home in 2022 with the carefully curated selection available to shop at Houzz. The inscription on the right side of Octagon in Greek is about, “ providing the funding for the State Festival Games by the four cities”. It is recorded in the Latin inscription on the left side that “The division of the monetary help to the cities after the earhtquake”. A roof in the form of an octagonal step pyramid may be assumed from the finds of numerous stone steps cut to match an octagon. The top of both the leaves and the heads of the bird griffins supported alternating block-shaped and curved consoles. The frieze is unusual: upright acanthus leaves alternate with palm leaves and griffins. It was surrounded by coloumns and the parts close to the roof were decorated with garlands frieze. The Octagon had an octagonal shape on top of a pedestal of a tetragonal shape. The skeleton was identified the gender and the age of the woman when she died, the bones dates back to 200-20 BC. The Austrian Academy of Sciences had claimed that the the building was the burial chamber of Arsinoe IV of Egypt, the youngest daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes and the stepsister of famous Cleopatra VII.
A vault and the skeleton of a 15-20 year old woman in a marble a sarcophagus was found in this building. It was proven that the building was a monumental tomb for Cleopatra’s sister Arsinoe IV, who was murdered in 41 B.C in Ephesus.
On the northwestern corner of the Terrace Houses part II in Ephesus the Octagon locates front of Curetes Street.
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