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URBAN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

URBAN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 1.35

(a)

FIGURE 1.25 Views (direction shown in Fig.
1.24) of the aqueducts of Rome at the Porta
Maggiore (double-arched gate) on the Aurelian
Wall where all the eastern aqueducts entered
Rome. (a) View of the Porta Maggiore, (b)
aqueducts Claudia (top) and the Anio Novus
(bottom) above the Porta Maggiore, (c) view of
the Aurelian Wall, (d) three aqueducts Julia
(top), Tepula (center), and Marcia (lower)
located on the Aurelian Wall, and (e and f )
Nero’s branch of the Aqua Claudia that sup-
plied water to the Trophies of Marius
nymphaeum. (Photos by Larry W. Mays and
(b) copyright by Larry W. Mays)

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