It is located directly behind the Stoa of Antigonos outside the temenos of the Sanctuary of Apollo on the island of Delos.

[1] In the 6th century BC, the fountain was covered by a square building with a hipped roof and walls on three sides.

A monumental façade on the south side gave access to the fountain through a portico lined with small Doric columns.

When repairs were conducted in the mid-2nd century BC, the fountainhouse was decorated with a fresco of a river god with three nymphs.

An inscribed stele dating to the 5th century regulated use of the public fountain with "no washing, swimming, or throwing of dung into the sacred spring".