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The 12 meter high tower of the wind stands on the edge of the Roman marketplace. He comes from the 1st Century BC, when Greece is already under Roman rule, and housed a clock. The time is measured in antiquity especially with sundials, which of course at night and failed to storm-cloud sky. So it was in some places water clocks that are on a complex tube system always exactly the right time. In addition to the outer sides of the octagonal tower sundials appropriate. It is a relief frieze in t...
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