This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium; Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul; reviving the sounds; shapes; smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople; the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires; is surrounded on three sides by sea; and has no major river to deliver clean; potable water. However; the cultures that thrived in this remarkable waterscape through millennia have developed and sustained diverse water cultures and a water delivery system that has supported countless fountains; some of which survive today. Scholars address the delivery system that conveyed and stored water; and the fountains; large and small; from which it gushed. Papers consider spring water; rainwater and seawater; water suitable for drinking; bathing and baptism; and fountains real; imagined and symbolic. Experts in the history of art and culture; archaeology and theology; and poetry and prose; offer reflections on water and fountains across two millennia in one location.
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