Stone temple in Acropolis of Ialysos. This is an archealogical site in and around the hill of Philerimos in Ialysos Rhodes Greece. Doric fountain-house. Two tunnels brought water from the top of the hill to a cistern cut into the rock and closed by a poros isodomic wall in the form of a ÃÂ . Lion-head spouts discharged the water from the closed cistern into an open tank, which was enclosed by six pillars with stone panels between them, and from there to a portico of six Doric columns which formed the facade of the fountain-house 4th c. BC. A sacred law with proscriptions for the protection of the fountain-house was carved on one of the pillars.
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