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Surroundings:

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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, ‘Ajal al Ḩumr
  • geo:35.627663,38.756302
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 3xx / unknown

Class:

  • Aqueduct
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=24671

Annotations

This massive underground cisterns were used to collect water from the winter and spring rains.

See:

  1. Catharine Hof, The monumental Late Antique cisterns of Resafa, Syria as refined capacity and water-quality regulation system, https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445389-014

Nearby

Sergiopolis, Basilica B

Byzantine church. Martyrium of Saint Sergius .

Resafa

Resafa or Sergiopolis. Rusafa. Akkadian Raṣappa


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