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1994 | 1 | 59-62

Article title

Rekonstrukcja wodociągu Trimontium

Content

Title variants

EN
The Reconstruction of the Trimontium Aqueduct

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PL EN

Abstracts

EN
This study contains a presentation of the outcome of archeological excavations conducted for more than sixty years on the site of the Roman Trimontium aqueduct (today: Plovdiv). Particular attention was paid to the discoveries made in the 1977-1985 period in the Plovdiv Komatievo district where new relics of two parallel late antique aqueducts were unearthed. The western aqueduct was reconstructed along two fragments 250 m long in the central lane of a highway running from the West, in direct proximity of the railway station in Plovdiv. The reconstruction includes two best preserved fragments of a platform together with the lower pillars. The northern fragment was recreated by elevating 14 of its pillars to various heights; only two of these pillars were rebuilt totally and a third one — up to the bottom of the arch, making it possible to suspend two arches with the main channel of the aqueduct. The southern fragment, similarly reconstructed upon three completely recreated pillars and a fourth one rebuilt up to the lower part, upholds three arches and a channel. The overall reconstruction is 11,4 m high. The walls of the pillars have been built on the plan of a cross 4,4 x 3,4 m large. The restoration of this sixth-century aqueduct is unique on a global scale and testifies to the importance attached in Bulgaria to antique tradition in which that country perceives its cultural continuum.

Year

Issue

1

Pages

59-62

Physical description

Dates

published
1994

Contributors

References

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Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

ISSN
0029-8247

YADDA identifier

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