Cordoba Fountain Statues

Contributor: Keith Jenkins
Published: 2026-10-01
Last modified: 2026-10-01

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Garden Description

A series of fountain statues have been found, of which two could belong to the same decorative group as a nearby public nympheum close to one of the city’s fora. The first statue-fountain, in the Archaeological Museum of Cordoba, represents a marble female figure in the form of a nymph with a shell, similar to another found in a private collection, of which only the lower part with the remains of a shell still exists. The similarities between the two indicate their manufacture in a workshop in the city itself, which from the style suggests a date around the second century AD.

Bibliography

Mª L. Loza Azuaga, La escultura de fuentes en Hispania: ejemplos de la Bética, in Actas de la I Reunión sobre escultura romana en Hispania , Mérida, 1993, pp. 143-146.

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