Pont du Gard
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
Feb 24, 2023 10:02 AM
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History
The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge that crosses the Gardon River near the town of Vers-Pont-du-Gard in the south of France. It was enrolled as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/149496
43.9472538216, 4.53529107172
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Pont du Gard (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Present day span of bridge (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Pont du Gard (French, modern)
- Pont du Gard material sourced from Estel Roman Quarry (30 BC - AD 300)
- Pont du Gard crosses Gard (river) (unspecified date range)
- Pont du Gard part of (analytical) Nîmes aqueduct (unspecified date range)
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aqueduct, bridge
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 15 D2
S. Loseby, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Pont du Gard: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/149496> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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