{"id":6510,"date":"2026-01-12T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/pannelli-didattici-e-mappe\/larea-dei-culti-orientali-e-il-quartiere-residenziale-di-porta-laurentina\/ninfeo-degli-eroti\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:01:28","slug":"ninfeo-degli-eroti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/larea-dei-culti-orientali-e-il-quartiere-residenziale-di-porta-laurentina\/ninfeo-degli-eroti\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninfeo degli Eroti"},"content":{"rendered":"

The monumental nymphaeum, built in the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0century AD, takes the form of a single square room, closed and completely covered in marble panels, which provided a backdrop for the jets of water that gushed from a\u00a0labrum<\/em>\u00a0(basin) set inside a central square pool.<\/p>\n

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Reconstruction drawing of the nymphaeum
(Coen, A. Eula, P. Petrucci, M.C. Santorelli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The side walls of the nymphaeum had two rectangular niches, each with a marble statue placed inside it. These were Roman copies of a type attributed to the Greek sculptor Lysippus depicting Eros stringing his bow and are now in the Museo Ostiense.<\/p>\n

In the back wall was a semi-circular niche, perhaps adorned with a statue of Venus.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tStatue of Eros stringing his bow, held in the Museo Ostiense\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tStatue of Eros stringing his bow, held in the Museo Ostiense\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The monumental nymphaeum, built in the 4th\u00a0century AD, takes the form of a single square room, closed and completely covered in marble panels, which provided a backdrop for the jets of water that gushed from a\u00a0labrum\u00a0(basin) set inside a central square pool.     The side walls of the nymphaeum had two rectangular niches, each…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6476,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6510\/revisions\/6511"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}