El Ar(i)ouia cisterns (Tubusuctu)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 22, 2025 03:36 PM
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History
A barrel-vaulted cistern complex located to the immediate north of Tubusuctu that could hold nearly 12,000 cubic meters of water. It was fed by the so-called "Western Aqueduct" of Tubusuctu.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/84277965
36.6615735306, 4.83257946545
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: visible ruins of cistern (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Citernes Supérieures (French, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- El Ariouia (Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- El Arouia (Arabic, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- El Ar(i)ouia cisterns (Tubusuctu) located at Tubusuctu (unspecified date range)
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cistern
Pleiades
Tom Elliott, 'El Ar(i)ouia cisterns (Tubusuctu): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/84277965> [accessed: 22 June 2025]
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