Aqua Virgo
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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Aug 03, 2020 06:09 AM
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History
The Aqua Virgo was one of the 11 aqueducts supplying the city of Rome and was completed by Marcus Agrippa in 19 BC. The aqueduct was later revitalized by Pope Adrian I in the eighth century.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423568
41.9026744, 12.4837635
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of visible section of the Aqua Virgo (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Aqua Virgo (30 BC - AD 640)
- Aqua Virgo connection Roma (unspecified date range)
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aqueduct
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 43 C2 Aqua Virgo
Some remains of the aqueduct are visible in the via del Nazzareno in the Campus Martius, not far from the Fontana di Trevi.
L. Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aqua Virgo: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423568> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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