| The nymphaeum served as a sanctuary, a reservoir, and an assembly chamber where weddings were held. |
| A small storage jar from the nymphaeum at Umm Qays with a geometric pattern painted before firing. |
| The Court of the Libraries, the oldest part of the ensemble, is a colonnaded portico with a nymphaeum on its northern side. |
| The two 'libraries' are reached by passages on either side of the nymphaeum. |
| This nymphaeum and its exedra, placed on the longitudinal axis of the garden, is the real centre of the ensemble. |
| The rotunda nymphaeum, common in the Roman period, was borrowed from such Hellenistic structures as the Great Nymphaeum of Ephesus. |
