Aqua Julia

The Aqua Julia. Among the splendid public works executed by Agrippa in his aedileship, B.C. 33, was the formation of a new aqueduct, and the restoration of all the old ones. From a source two miles to the right of the twelfth milestone of the Via Latina, he constructed his aqueduct (the Aqua Julia) first to the Aqua Tepula, in which it was merged as far as the reservoir (piscina) on the Via Latina, seven miles from Rome. From this reservoir the water was carried along two distinct channels, on the same substructions (which were probably the original substructions of the Aqua Tepula, newly restored), the lower channel being called the Aqua Tepula, and the upper the Aqua Julia; and this double aqueduct again was united with the Aqua Marcia , over the watercourse of which the other two were carried. The monument erected at the junction of these three aqueducts, is still to be seen close to the Porta S. Lorenzo. It bears an inscription referring to the repairs under Caracalla (See the woodcut below, p112). The whole course of the Aqua Julia, from its source, amounted to 15,426 passus, partly on massive substructions, and partly on arches (Frontin. 8, 9, 19).

P. Smith BA (in: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities 1875, W. Smith DCL LLD)
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Marcia/Tepula
Marcia/Tepula
Marcia channel
Porta Maggiore

Porta Maggiore town side
Comparative heights
Porta Maggiore
Via Prenestina

View on Ad Spem Veterem
Between Maggiore and Tiburtina
Porta Tiburtina
Porta Tiburtina

Tiburtina in mediaeval times
Porta Tiburtina side view
Three inscriptions