The Piscina Mirabilis (Latin for "wondrous pool") is an Ancient Roman cistern on the Bacoli hill at the western end of the Gulf of Naples, southern Italy...
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The Greatest Water Reservoirs in the Ancient Roman World and the “Piscina Mirabilis” in Misenum. Water Science & Technology: Water Supply. vol. 10, issue...
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was probably the biggest Roman urban cistern in the world until the Piscina Mirabilis was built at the end of the 1st c. BC. Sextus Julius Frontinus (40...
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of a looming actors' strike. Novels portal Aqua Augusta (Naples) Piscina Mirabilis John B. Dexter, "The invention of America", p. 127 Beard, Matthew...
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Scalandrone near Baiae. One of its main terminations was the enormous Piscina Mirabilis cistern at the naval base and port of Misenum. Since the aqueduct...
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partially excavated (Via Campi Flegrei). The Piscina di Cardito cistern, second in size only to the Piscina Mirabilis, and used as a settlement tank for the...
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Pompeii, whose protagonist, Attilius, works as the aquarius at the Piscina Mirabilis (the reservoir to which the Aqua Augusta aqueduct connected). In the...
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catacombs in and around the city, and other landmarks such as the Piscina Mirabilis, the main cistern serving the Bay of Naples during Roman times. Several...
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Grotta di Cocceio Herculaneum Villa of the Papyri Liternum Miseno Piscina Mirabilis Naples Aqua Augusta Bourbon Tunnel Catacombs of San Gaudioso Catacombs...
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outer cross walls; thus in the Roman reservoir at Baiae, known as the Piscina Mirabilis, a series of five aisles with semicircular barrel vaults are intersected...
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major ancient Roman structures can be seen in Bacoli, including the Piscina Mirabilis, the Cento Camerelle, and the so-called Tomba Agrippina, a theatre...
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reference to the Estate of Julia Felix, as well as also including the Piscina Mirabilis in Misenum, Pliny the Elder, and his nephew Gaius Pliny. The story...
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with connected underground pipelines, and which was connected to the Piscina Mirabilis reservoir then called Dogliuolo, from the Latin Doliolum or Dolium...
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Engraving of a drawing of the Piscina Mirabilis, a Roman Cistern located in Bacoli (IT), near the ancient Roman port of Misenum. Signed: Joan. Baptista...
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bacterial colonies have been performed in Bacillus subtilis and in Proteus mirabilis. Mathematical modeling of colony growth can reproduce the observed morphologies...
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the Saint-Roch chapel we see three small altars with a credence and a piscina. The first two altars are carved from white stone whilst the third which...
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