Nîmes aqueduct
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S. Loseby Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S. Loseby Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 14, 2020 03:35 PM
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History
Supplied Nemausus with water from the mid-first to sixth centuries AD.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148738
43.9523067788, 4.52851636698
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Aqueduc de Nîmes (en ruine) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Nîmes aqueduct flows into Nemausus (unspecified date range)
- La Lône arcade, Nimes aqueduct part of (analytical) Nîmes aqueduct (30 BC - AD 300)
- Perrotte Aqueduct tunnel, aqueduct of Nimes part of (analytical) Nîmes aqueduct (30 BC - AD 300)
- Pont de Bornègre part of (analytical) Nîmes aqueduct (30 BC - AD 300)
- Pont du Gard part of (analytical) Nîmes aqueduct (unspecified date range)
- Ura Fons flows into Nîmes aqueduct (unspecified date range)
aqueduct
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 15 C2
The aqueduct was about 50 km in length with a vertical drop of 17 meters.
S. Loseby, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Nîmes aqueduct: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148738> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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