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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 October 2024. Type of aqueduct built in ancient Rome See also: List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire The multiple arches of the Pont du Gard in Roman Gaul (modern-day southern France). The upper tier encloses an aqueduct that carried water to Nimes in Roman times; its lower tier was expanded in the ...
Detailed statistics [1] for the city's aqueducts were logged around 97 AD by Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Curator Aquarum (superintendent of the aqueducts) for Rome during the reign of Nerva. Less information is known about aqueducts built after Frontinus. These estimates may not have considered water loss.
This is a list of aqueducts in the Roman Empire. For a more complete list of known and possible Roman aqueducts and Roman bridges see List of Roman bridges . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Route of the Aqua Appia Map of Aqua Appia in Rome. The Aqua Appia was the first Roman aqueduct, constructed in 312 BC by the co-censors Gaius Plautius Venox and Appius Claudius Caecus, the same Roman censor who also built the important Via Appia.
built in 1870; source: springs near Subiaco, east of Rome; length: 56 miles (90 km); underground for 50 miles (80 km) in the channel of Aqua Marcia, then on arches for 6 miles (9.7 km) to its terminus at the Fountain of the Naiads on the Viminal Hill; Acqua Vergine Nuova. built in 1937; source: springs in Salone, east of Rome
Map of the Aqua Alexandrina outside of Rome Aqua Alexandrina in Rome. The aqueduct was constructed in AD 226 as the last of the eleven ancient aqueducts of Rome.It was built under the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus to supply his enlargement of the Baths of Nero, which were renamed Thermae Alexandrinae.
The aqueduct went through at least two major repairs. Tacitus suggests that the aqueduct was in use by AD 47. [7] An inscription from Vespasian suggests that Aqua Claudia was used for ten years, then failed and was out of use for nine years. [8] The first repair was done by Emperor Vespasian in 71 AD; it was repaired again in 81 AD by Emperor ...
The route of the Eifel aqueduct, with its average slope. The Eifel Aqueduct was one of the longest aqueducts of the Roman Empire.. The aqueduct, constructed in AD 80, carried water some 95 kilometres (59 mi) from the hilly Eifel region of what is now Germany to the ancient city of Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (present-day Cologne).