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Nymphaeum
(1,502 words)
I. Sanctuary [German version] A. Etymology and definition The word νυμφαῖον/
nymphaîon is first attested in the 4th cent. BC, on Delos (IG XI,2,144, A l. 91). It originally designated a sanctuary of the nymphs. A nymphaeum is first attested in Itanus on Crete in the 3rd cent. BC together with a water reservoir (ILS 9458). The Latinised form
nymphaeum is first found in Pomponius Mela (first half of the 1st cent. AD, Mela 2,3), for a nymph sanctuary in Chersonessus. Conversely, Plinius (HN 35,151) used the word
nymphaeum to describe a well with a statue in it (Corinth). The modern t…
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