Serino Aqueduct
The Serino aqueduct is an ancient Roman aqueduct in Campania . It led from a spring near Serino on Vesuvius via Naples and Puteoli to the Roman naval base Misenum . At its end there were several large water tanks , see list of Roman cisterns .
The ancient name of the line is not known exactly. Presumably it was called aqua Augusta , as an inscription from Puteoli a curator aquae Augustae mentioned and a late antique inscription their source as fons Augusteus referred. The name aqua Augusta was also used for numerous other aqueducts in the Roman Empire. Accordingly, it was built under Augustus , perhaps with the participation of his confidante Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa , who built or renewed several water pipes to the city of Rome .
In the novel Pompeii by Robert Harris , the engineer Marcus Attilius Primus is. Sent in 79. BC just before the eruption of Vesuvius by Misenum to take aqueduct called to the supervision of the Aqua Augusta.
literature
- Mathias Döring: Water for the "Sinus Baianus": Roman engineering and hydraulic structures in the Phlegraean fields . In: Antike Welt , Vol. 33, 2002, No. 3, pp. 305-319.
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Remarks
- ↑ CIL 10, 1805 .
- ↑ AE 1939, 151 ; see. Augustus' inscription of the Serino aqueduct / Aqua Augusta .
- ↑ See Marietta Horster : Building inscriptions of Roman emperors . Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, pp. 106-110.