EPHESOS (Selçuk)
| aqueduct ID: | 1345 |
|---|---|
| name: | EPHESOS |
| modern name: | Selçuk |
| other names (Mod/Clas): | Έφεσος, EPHESUS, efes |
| aqueduct name: | Değirmendere-alte Leitung (old channel) |
| country: | Turkey |
| age: | Roman, Hadrianic |
| period: | 2d c, prob 124-129 AD |
| length (km): | |
| dimension WxH (m): | 0.6 x 0.5 |
| volume (m³/day): | 20.740 |
| mean gradient (m/km): | 1 |
| Destination | Town |
| Construction elements | |
| notes: | This is the first phase of the Değirmendere aqueduct, which was replaced by a new channel in the last 18 km of the aqueduct after it was cut by a fault around 159 AD. The last 18 km of the aqueduct is therfore a double specus; the older one was partly dismantled to build the new channel alongside at a slightly different altitude. |
| RefCode | title | authors | year | pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passchier2012a | Aqueducts as Indicators of historically active faults in the Mediterranean Basin | Passchier, C W, Wiplinger , G, Sürmelihindi, G, Kessener, P, Güngör, T | 2012 | |
| Passchier2013 | Normal fault displacement dislocating a Roman aqueduct of Ephesos, western Turkey | Passchier, C W, Wiplinger, G, Güngör, T, Kessener, P, Sürmelihindi, G | 2013 |