List of Roman cisterns

The Basilica Cistern in Constantinople provided water for the Imperial Palace.

The list of Roman cisterns offers an overview over Ancient Roman cisterns. Freshwater reservoir were commonly set up at the termini of aqueducts and their branch lines, supplying urban households, agricultural estates, imperial palaces, thermae or naval bases of the Roman navy.^[1]

Cisterns

	Cistern	Location	Country	Water supply	Width (m)	Length (m)	Clear height (m)	Water depth (m)	Capacity (m³)	Volume (m³)
	Basilica Cistern	Constantinople	Turkey
	Cistern of Philoxenos	Constantinople	Turkey
	Theodosius Cistern	Constantinople	Turkey
	Piscina Mirabilis	Misenum	Italy	Serino Aqueduct	250 !25	0660 !166	103 !10.3	75 !7.5	10700 !10,700	14300 !14,300 [2]
	Roman cisterns	Fermo	Italy	rainwater	300 !30	0700 !170	06 !6	070 !0,70	3000 !3,000	10000 !10,000 [2]
	Grotta Dragonara	Misenum	Italy	Rainwater?	700 !70	0720 !172	095 !19.5	45 !4.5	07700 !17,700	11900 !11,900 [2]
	Il Cisternone	Albano	Italy							10132 !10,132 [3]
	Aïn Mizeb	Thugga	Tunisia	Aqueduct						09000 !19,000
	Aïn El Hammam	Thugga	Tunisia	Aqueduct						06000 !16,000
	Cripta Romana	Cumae	Italy	Serino Aqueduct	310 !31	0380 !138	080 !18.0	30 !3.0	02100 !12,100	05300 !15,300 [2]
	Piscina Cardito, Southern Reservoir	Puteoli	Italy	Campanian Aqueduct	160 !16	0550 !155	060 !16.0	45 !4.5 [B 1]	04000 !14,000 [B 2]	05300 !15,300 [2]
	Piscina Lusciano	Puteoli	Italy	Serino Aqueduct	250 !25	0270 !127	065 !16.5	40 !4.0 [B 3]	02700 !12,700 [B 4]	04400 !14,400 [2]
	Tunnel Cistern [A 1]	Baiae	Italy	Rainwater	035 !13.5	3000 !300	030 !13.0	20 !2.0	02100 !12,100	02800 !12,800 [2][B 5]
	Cento Camerelle, Upper Reservoir	Misenum	Italy	Rainwater	180 !18	0230 !123	078 !17.8	55 !5.5	02000 !12,000	02450 !12,450 [2]
	Cento Camerelle	Puteoli	Italy	Campanian Aqueduct?	070 !17	0700 !170	052 !15.2	20 !2.0	00850 !11850	02000 !12,000 [2]
	Cento Camerelle, Lower Reservoir [A 2]	Misenum	Italy	Rainwater	020 !12	1600 !160	040 !14.0	30 !3.0	00960 !11960	01100 !11,100 [2][B 6]
	Piscina Cardito, Northern Reservoir	Puteoli	Italy	Campanian Aqueduct	080 !18	0340 !134	000 !1?	013 !1.3 [B 7]	00350 !11350 [B 8]	00000 !1? [2]
	Domitian's Villa [3]	Albano	Italy		110 !11	1230 !123
	Villa Jovis	Capri	Italy

Notes

References

Sources

• Adam, Jean-Pierre (2004), Roman Building. Materials and Techniques, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-20866-6 
• Döring, Mathias (2002), "Wasser für den 'Sinus Baianus': Römische Ingenieur- und Wasserbauten der Phlegraeischen Felder", Antike Welt 33 (3): 305–319 

See also

• Roman aqueduct
• Roman architecture
• Roman engineering
• Roman technology

External links

Media related to Roman cisterns at Wikimedia Commons

• Roman Aqueducts – Basins in Roman aqueducts
• Traianus – Technical investigation of Roman public works

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