ClassificationsWorks of Art on Paper
The Tower of the Winds (The Horologion of Andronikos)
Dateca. 1877
MediumToned albumen print
Credit LineGift of William Knight Zewadski
Dimensions10 11/16 x 8 7/16 in. (27.1 x 21.4 cm)
Object number1990.010.167
Label TextErected in the first century BC, this unusual monument donated by an astronomer served as a weathervane, sundial, and water clock. It is an octagon with each face oriented to a point of the compass. Personifications of the winds for each direction are carved on the frieze at the top. In this photograph, from left to right, are depicted Skiron, the northwest wind, with a hydria, or water urn; Zephyros, the west wind, bearing flowers in his mantle; and Lips, the southwest wind, holding the ornament from a ship's stern. Much later, under the Ottoman Empire, the tower was used as a tekke, or meeting place for dervishes.Exhibition HistoryThe Eye of Greece: Athens in Nineteenth-Century Photographs, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 25 - November 24, 2004
In Search of Noble Marbles: The Earliest Travelers to Greece, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 14 - April 9, 2017
ProvenanceEx coll. William Knight Zewadski, United States.
Status
Not on viewCollections
- Works of Art on Paper
1400-1390 BCE
mid 7th Century BCE
mid 7th Century BCE
1st Century CE
ca. 1870
