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Acquedotto Vergine: Stewardship of Ancient Water Infrastructure in the Modern Roman Periferia (2021)
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The Acquedotto Vergine is the only ancient aqueduct still functioning in Rome. Commissioned under Emperor Augustus, and privately financed by Agrippa as part of a larger urban water infrastructure improvement program, the aqueduct was dedicated on June 9, 19 BCE and supplied water for both public structures and private concessions. Sourced from springs at the Sorgenti di Salone, and engineered as a gravity-fed, 21 km long system, the aqueduct principally consisted of subterranean, arched,...