Aqua Augusta (Naples)

As Serino Aqueduct an ancient Roman aqueduct in Campania is called. She led from a source at Serino at Vesuvius by over Naples and Puteoli to the Roman naval base Misenum. At its end there were several large water tank, see List of Roman cisterns.

The ancient name of the line is not accurately known. Presumably it was called Aqua Augusta, since an inscription from Puteoli mentions a curator aquae Augustae and a late ancient inscription refers to her as a source fons Augusteus. The name Aqua Augusta was also used for numerous other aqueducts in the Roman Empire. Thus, it was built under Augustus, perhaps involving the familiar Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who built or renew several water lines for the city of Rome.

In the novel Pompeii by Robert Harris, the engineer Marcus Attilius Primus will be sent in 79 AD, just before the eruption of Vesuvius by Misenum, to take over the supervision of the Aqua Augusta aqueduct mentioned.