9 novembre 2016
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Dall’Aglio Pier Luigi et al., « La gestione dell’acqua nella città romana di Ostra (Ostra Vetere, Ancona): adduzione, distribuzione, evacuazione », HAL-SHS : histoire, ID : 10.19272/201609101007
The Roman town of Ostra arose initially as a vicus in the iii century BC, and later became a municipium during the first century BC. The urban transformation also involved the installation of all the structures necessary for civil and political life and a rational organisation of spaces, both of public and of private ones. In particular, the archaeology has shown that the urban road axes were built at that moment, and that the sewage system was realised beneath them. This network unloaded its waters into the Misa river through two main collectors, one of them set in connection with the trace of an ancient river bed. More complex is to establish how the water supply worked. This, however, given the presence of a fountain, had to occur by means of an aqueduct that could take water either from the nearby springs placed along the slope or from the San Vicino ridge. Beside the aqueduct there were also the wells, for example the one that fed the nymphaeum placed within the forum through the use of a hydraulic pump.