Acqua per Cartagine: la fornitura idrica in epoca punica e romana

Abstract

Water abduction was one of ancient world's most crucial problems, especially in a challenging environment such as Africa Proconsularis . Building on A. Wilson's seminal paper  ( Water supply in Ancient Carthage , 1998) and taking into account the archeological finds of the last two decades,  the paper examines Carthage's systems of water abduction, storage and consumption in their diachronic evolution from the Punic to the Roman periods, place them in their urban landscapes and try to understand them in light of their peculiar Wasserkulturen.