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Marble slab from the family tomb of a castellarius

The inscription reads:

D(is) M(anibus) / Cleme(n)ti Caesar/um n(ostrorum) / servo caste/llario aquae Cl/audiae fecit Clau/dia Sabbathis et si/bi et suis

The deceased, Clemens, controlled the distribution tanks (castella) of the Aqua Claudia (initiated by Caligula in 38 and completed by Claudius in 52), mentioned in the epigraph of the arches (now Porta Maggiore) incorporated in the Aurelian Walls (the final part of a 69 km path fed by springs from the upper valley of the River Aniene). The massive water system that served the capital of the Empire, described in a monograph by Frontinus, alone offers an indication of the magnificence of the city, divided into 14 regions and filled with fountains and thermal baths. Clemens was buried by his wife who bears, alongside a name of Semitic origin (Sabbathis), the same family name as Claudius. Perhaps the deceased (referred to generically as “slave of our Caesars”) belonged to this emperor and others who succeeded him rather than to the two co-reigning emperors: Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (161-169 A.D.), M. Aurelio and Comodo (177-180 A.D.) or Septimius Severus and Caracalla (198-209 A.D.).

From Rome, unknown burial monument
Second half of the first – late second century A.D.

© Roma, Musei Vaticani, Galleria Lapidaria

Small house under the old aqueduct  

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Stanislaus National Forest, California
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Men on horseback near Roman aqueduct, Italy, circa late 19th century.

The Brooks Aqueduct is one of many Canadian Pacific Railway irrigation projects that were intended to promote settlement in southeastern Alberta in the early part of last century. The aqueduct  brought water to an area that was little more than a desert. 

Construction begun in 1908 to bring water from the Lake Newell reservoir across a dried-up river bed 3.2 km wide. The Brooks Aqueduct was considered a major engineering feat in its day, featuring a catenary-shaped flume mounted on columns 60 feet high in places and an inverted syphon under the railway line.

It remained operational for 65 years when it was ultimately replaced by a canal and was left as it was. It is now a National Historic Site of Canada.

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Photo by Vitold

Wendy Artin, Cinecittà, 2000. Watercolor on cotton Khadi paper, 40 x 18 cm.

Aqueduct, Segovia - Spain

Pont du Gard in the south of France.  This ancient Roman aqueduct has become a playground for canoes, kayaks, and relaxing.

The Aqueduct Park in Via Appia Antica, Rome, Italy.

John Sell Cotman, Chirk Aqueduct, c.1806–07.
Watercolor, 32 × 23 cm (12½ × 9 in).
Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

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