032) ‘Aqaba, Tell el- area: Late Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine aqueducts & cisterns
[PADIS code 0145]
Arabic: منطقة تل العقبة: قنوات وآبار من الفترة الهيلينستية المتأخرة والرومانية والبيزنطية
Site location: Lat. +31° 50' 56.59" N; Long. +35° 25' 44.03" E.
State of preservation: ruins, partly under erosion.
Occupational periods: Late Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic.
Plate: I, XXXIX.
Late Hellenistic Period
Site typology: water supply system.
Public architecture: aqueduct, cisterns.
Bibliography: Garbrecht - Peleg 1989, 14-15, figs. 20-21; Meshel - Amit 2002, 315-316, 319-321, figs. 1:32-39, 8.
Roman Period (Herodian Period)
Site typology: water supply system.
Public architecture: aqueduct, pools, cisterns.
Bibliography: Meshel - Amit 2002, 316, 321-322, fig. 1:36-38.
Byzantine Period
Site typology: aqueduct.
Public architecture: aqueduct.
Bibliography: Porath 1986-1987, 91-92; Meshel - Amit 2002, 322-325, 328-329.
Early Islamic Period
Site typology: aqueduct.
Public architecture: aqueduct (re-used).
Bibliography: Meshel - Amit 2002, 328, note 15.
Bibliography
| Garbrecht, G. - Peleg, J. | |
| 1989 | "Die Wasserung geschichtlicher Wüstenfestungen am Jordantal", in Antike Welt 20/2 (1989), pp. 3-20 (in particular pp. 14-15, figs. 20-21). |
| Meshel, Z. - Amit, D. | |
| 2002 | "The water-supply of the Cypros Fortress", in D. Amit - J. Patrich - Y. Hirschfeld (eds.), The Aqueducts of Israel (Journal of Roman Archaeology Suplementum 46), Portsmouth 2002, pp. 313-329. |
| Porath, Y. | |
| 1986-1987 | "The ancient aqueducts in Wadi Qelt", in Z.H. Ehrlich (ed.), Shomron U-Binyamin 1, Collection of essays in geographical history (Ofra 1986-1987), pp. 91-99 (Hebr.). |