Aqua Appia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
The earliest of Rome's aqueducts, the Aqua Appia was constructed in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus. The aqueduct runs a course of 16.4 km, entering Rome at the Porta Maggiore. Frontinus estimated the daily volume at 75,537 cubic meters.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423562
41.8890638, 12.50506555
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location: aqueduct segment at Piazza Celimontana (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- location of Aqua Appia (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Aqua Appia (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Aqua Appia Augusta (30 BC - AD 640)
- Aqua Appia connection Roma (unspecified date range)
- Porta Maggiore connection Aqua Appia (unspecified date range)
aqueduct
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 C2 Aqua Appia
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L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aqua Appia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423562> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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