Zaghouan Aqueduct
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.B. Hitchner Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: R.B. Hitchner Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 18, 2026 05:08 PM
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History
The so-called Zaghouan Aqueduct once supplied ancient Carthage with water. The course of the aqueduct carried water from a spring near Ziqua, some 132 km from the city.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/315603
36.6280889444, 10.1291218604
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Arcade romaine (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Zaghouan Aqueduct flows into Carthago (unspecified date range)
- Spring supplying Carthage via unnamed aqueduct flows into Zaghouan Aqueduct (unspecified date range)
aqueduct
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 32 F3
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Carthago
R.B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Zaghouan Aqueduct: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/315603> [accessed: 10 September 2026]
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