Roman Aqueduct of Knossos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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A roman contour-grade aqueduct, carrying water from the Fundana spring, south of Knossos, to an inverted siphon bridge at Spilia and thence to Knossos.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/590414
35.2715300313, 25.1759968074
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: 19th century Spilia Aqueduct Bridge (AD 1800 - AD 1899) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location: aqueduct source: Fundana spring (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Roman Aqueduct of Knossos flows into Knosos/Col. Iulia Nobilis Cnosos (unspecified date range)
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aqueduct, spring, bridge
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 D2
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Knosos
J. Bennet, G. Reger, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Roman Aqueduct of Knossos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/590414> [accessed: 31 January 2025]
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