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Zaghouan Aqueduct

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: R.B. Hitchner

Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jul 02, 2022 08:50 AM — 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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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/315603

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.6329877292, 10.1283363214

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Arcade romaine (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Zaghouan Aqueduct makes connections with:

Zaghouan Aqueduct flows into Carthago (unspecified date range)

Zaghouan Aqueduct receives connections from:

Spring supplying Carthage via unnamed aqueduct flows into Zaghouan Aqueduct (unspecified date range)

Place type:
aqueduct

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 32 F3

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Carthago

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Suggested citation:
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, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/315603> [accessed: 17 June 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/315603 |title=Places: 315603 (Zaghouan Aqueduct) |author=Hitchner, R. |accessdate=June 17, 2025 2:47 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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