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undertook a campaign of excavation, with this the paved court, fountain house and draw basin were fully exposed. It was from this final excavation that it was determined that the spring house had been set into a natural cave which had collapsed sometime in antiquity. A shaft was then opened into the
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says of it âKlepsydra is a fountain which was formerly called Empedoâ. Empedo, argues
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rediscovered the source of the spring, leaving the first written account of the site in 1835. Archaeological examination began in earnest with
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occupation the well fell into disuse such that the
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in 1874, and with later development having been cleared from the site
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