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PMR070K-07 Turkey, Lycia, Kalkan: a well-preserved section of a Roman aqueduct on a hill crest above the Bay of Firnaz, south of Yesiliköy, 230 metres long, 3 metres wide, and 9 metres high, which carried water under pressure in a 33cm. bore stone pipeline for 35 kilometres to Patara from a spring near (today's) Islamlar. Here: the male and female connections of the stone segments which carried the water under pressure on the aqueduct. Keywords: water supplies, Roman building, water supply in antiquity, Lycia

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Turkey, Lycia, Kalkan: a well-preserved section of a Roman aqueduct

on a hill crest above the Bay of Firnaz, south of Yesiliköy, 230 metres long, 3 metres wide, and 9 metres high, which carried water under pressure in a 33cm. bore stone pipeline for 35 kilometres to Patara from a spring near (today's) Islamlar. Here: the male and female connections of the stone segments which carried the water under pressure on the aqueduct.
Keywords: water supplies, Roman building, water supply in antiquity, Lycia