Fountain with a sculpture figure of Neptune
According to historian Yuri Biriuliov, among the `best work of Hartman Witwer 1774-1825 are ... the four stone statues made out of limestone and located at the wells on Market Square ââ¬â they embodied the allegory of earth the sculptures of Diana and Adonis and water the sculptures of Neptune and Amphitrite. The Market Square figures were created some time between 1810 and 1814, and are mentioned in original sources first in 1815, when the city council passed a resolution forbidding damage to the sculptures during the celebration of the traditional Ukrainian `Jordan` holiday [the celebration of the Baptism of Jesus, and] the sanctification of water.` On the western side of the square are fountains with the figures of Neptune the southwestern corner and Amphitrite the northwestern corner. On the eastern side are fountains with the figures of Adonis northeast and Diana southeast side.
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