Definition of "nymphaeum" []

• An ancient Greek or Roman shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain. (noun)

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• "What is most striking about the nymphaeum is the fact that most of its original statuary seems to be present, collapsed inside the water basin."
• "A visitor may walk behind the water through the rusticated arcade of the concave nymphaeum, which is peopled by marble nymphas."
• "Besides the 4 m tall hero occupying the Northwest Heroon (hero shrine) and the twice-life size statues of Dionysos from the mid-Antonine nymphaeum (fountain house) on the Upper Agora, there is a 5 m tall Apollo statue from the late Hadrianic nymphaeum above the city's Lower Agora."