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URBAN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

URBAN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE 1.41

FIGURE 1.27 Profile of the aqueduct of Nîmes. (Hauck, 1988)

1.3.5 Aqueducts of Ephesus
The water supply system to Ephesus consisted of four systems (see Fig. 1.33): (1)
the Sirince system from the east, (2) the Derbentdere system from the southeast,
(3) the Degirmendere system from the southwest, and (4) the Kayapinar system
from the northeast. Ephesus (the metropolitan city of Roman Asia Minor) received
its first water by aqueduct (built by C. Sextius Pollio) about the same time as
Nîmes did.
The Sirince system conveyed groundwater from the hills of the village Sirince,
east of Selcuk. This system probably supplied the Artemis Temple in Ephesus
(Ozis, 1996). A collection system, consisting of a main and three lateral galleries

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