Fountain
`Ayn Najm, Lebanon
Lebanese Heritage Museum
About The Lebanese University, `Ayn Najm
19th century
Marble; mosaic
Turkey
Water fountains such as these were common in Ottoman government buildings in Lebanon, and were turned on whenever there was a meeting to prevent outsiders overhearing or eavesdropping. This marble fountain is octagonal in shape and is decorated with embossed semi-cylinders on each side. The exterior of the structure is decorated with a mosaic of black, white, beige and brown marble organised in geometric designs. A second, circular level of the fountain rests on this first octagonal structure.
Marie Therese Moujabber "Fountain" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;lb;42;en
Prepared by: Marie Therese Moujabber
Copyedited by: Flaminia Baldwin
MWNF Working Number: LB 053
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