Aqua Appia

The Aqua Appia is the oldest aqueduct ( aqueduct ), which was built in ancient times to supply the city of Rome.

History

The Aqua Appia was built in BC as first Roman water pipe 312 by the censors Appius Claudius and Gaius Plautius Caecus Venox. Appius Claudius Caecus was the same year the Via Appia create.

The water line had to be repaired several times. Quintus Marcius Rex This was done under 144-140 BC, then under Marcus Agrippa Vipsanius in 33 BC by Emperor Augustus, 11-4 BC

Water management

It was fed by springs that arose between the eighth and ninth milestone of the Via Praenestina and were approximately 1155 m away from this. The source version was probably built by Gaius Plautius Venox.

The 16.4 km long canal joined the Porta Maggiore in the city, flowed at the Porta Capena over over the Caelian, and ended on forum Boarium, near the Porta Trigemina. He transported by Frontinus up to 73,000 cubic meters of water per day. To protect and ensure the water supply of Rome during the Samnite Wars, the Aqua Appia was buried.

The fact that the almost entirely underground extending channel only has a height difference of 10 meters between the source and the destination, is remarkable for the 4th century BC.

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