Elgin clock tower

The Clock Tower of Elgin was a public clock tower erected in Athens between 1811 and 1814. The clock was donated by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and ordered in 1806, but the tower was built and paid for by the city. It stood in the area of the Roman Agora of Athens near the Library of Hadrian and was the first mechanical public clock in the city.The First Clock in Athens The tower was destroyed in a fire in 1884, and only fragments of the clock mechanism and inscriptions survive.Clocks with history: The tower clock of Elgin in the Old Market of Athens Academia.edu.Listing of the hands to the clock at the National Historical Museum

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