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Oinoanda: The Water Supply and Aqueduct*
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The city of Oinoanda is situated on a lofty ridge rising some 300 m. above the surrounding plain, at a point of obvious strategic value. It is a naturally strong site, but it lacks a generous natural water supply. The following investigation of the various water supply arrangements formed part of the survey at Oinoanda conducted by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara under the direction of Mr. A. S. Hall, and with the cooperation and assistance of the Directorate of Antiquities of Turkey.
There is a number of small springs on the slopes below the city, and there may have been more, or at least different ones, in antiquity (Fig. 1). There were probably springs at the Leto sanctuary on the west slope of the acropolis and more certainly at the sanctuary of the Nymphs on the east slope, although these do not now function, in summer at least, and perhaps never produced a great deal of water. A third sanctuary, much further down the east slope, also has a small spring, and was apparently devoted to Apollo. However, the only spring which nowadays produces water enough to contribute significantly to the supply of a substantial community lies some 500 m. west of the west gate and over 130 m. lower down, where it would be exposed to any attacking force.
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1 We are grateful to Mr. Hall for his invitation to join the survey team, to the Oxford University Craven and Meyerstein Funds and to Merton College, Oxford, for financial assistance, and to successive Turkish Government representatives, especially Bay Edip Özgür (see below p. 22) for inestimable assistance. We should also like to thank Mr. Ian Gardiner of Hydraulics Research Ltd., Wallingford, Oxon., for taking so much trouble in answering a number of complex technical questions, often with inadequate evidence to work on. No firm line separates the contributions of the two authors, but the descriptions as a whole, and the discussion of the inverted siphon system and its built aqueduct, are primarily due to J. J. C., while the discussion of the other elements is mainly the work of E.C.S.
2 Inscriptions published by Hall, A. S., AS 27 (1977) 193–7Google Scholar (cf. SEG 27 (1977) 930–2Google Scholar; J., and Robert, L., REG 91 (1978) 475–6, no. 462Google Scholar.
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4 An inscription discovered close to the sanctuary in 1983 contained a dedication to Apollo, so invalidating an earlier suggestion (Coulton, J. J., PCPS NS 29 (1983) 2Google Scholar), that the sanctuary might belong to Asklepios.
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16 As apparently at Alabanda and the Grüner Putz (see n. 15 above).
17 Loc. cit. (n. 15). Feed lines to the aqueduct to Arles sometimes unite at a basin, but sometimes discharge directly into it. However, this is not a piped system.
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19 Clearing basin is here used generically, of all containers intended to remove any kind of sediment from the water; silt trap is used for clearing basins serving only to remove coarse sediment, while sedimentation tank is used for clearing basins serving to purify and clarify the water by removing the finest sediment.
20 Ingersoll, A. C., McKee, J. E., Brooks, N. H., Proc. American Soc. of Civil Engineers 81Google Scholar, sep. no. 590 (Jan. 1955) 9, 21, 27; Clements, M., Proc. Institute of Civil Engineers 34 (June 1966) 171, 177, 196Google Scholar. E. C. S. is preparing a short study of ancient clearing basins.
21 Clearing basins do often double as manifolds (E. C. Stenton, op. cit. (n. 15) 131–3, 137–8), but at Oinoanda there are no side openings. The pipe joints of the Hellenistic Madra Dağ gravity line were extremely water tight (Garbrecht, G., Holtorff, G., WAAP: die Madradağ-Leitung (LIW Mitt 37, 1973) 86–94Google Scholar).
22 This is the minimum recommended height for the outlets of spring boxes in the Developing World (S. Cairncross, R. G. A. Feachem, op. cit. (n. 13) 8. However, the Samian outlet seems rather too high, since it is above the eye of the spring, and so might allow it to be blocked by silt (ibid).
23 F. Rakob, loc. cit. (n. 18), seems, wrongly, to regard many small basins as equivalent to one large one.
24 Not adequately published. Fullest accounts: Martin, R., Metzger, H., BCH 73 (1949) 317–23, 349–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Judeich, W., Topographie von Athen (1931) 190–1Google Scholar.
25 Compare the rock cuttings for the Marnas supply line to Ephesos (Forchheimer, P., FiE 3 (1923) 226–7Google Scholar).
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27 On the problem of entrained air, see Hodge, 1983, 197–9. He suggests (205) that air release valves may have been used on these rises, following Gräber, , AvPerg, 378Google Scholar.
28 We are grateful to Mr. I. Gardiner for this information.
29 As noted by H. Fahlbusch, loc. cit. (n. 26).
30 As in a modern serpentine sedimentation tank (see S. Cairncross, R. G. A. Feachem, op. cit. (n. 13) 37, figs. 25, 26).
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33 See above. Other Asiatic examples: Weber, 1898, 3–4. (city tank, Laodikeia; several chambers), 57 (header, Laodikeia; 2 ch.); id., 1899, 12 (water tower, Smyrna; several ch.); Gräber, , AvPerg, 396Google Scholar, Fahlbusch, H., WA Hellas, 145Google Scholar (clearing basin/header, Pergamon; 4ch.); Hülsen, J., Milet 1.5 (1919) 4, 8–9Google Scholar (clearing basin?, nymphaion, Miletus; 2 ch.). Examples elsewhere, several with two storeys, are similar: Ingenieurtechnik, 540–2; Germain de Montauzan, 306–8; Ashby, , Aqueducts, 84, 133, 174, 277, 281, 226Google Scholar; Grenier, , Manuel 4, 104, 137Google Scholar; Audin, A., Aqueducs romains, 13–18Google Scholar; Wodociagi Rzymskie, 280.
34 As in the Hellenistic header tank at Pergamon (see above p. 23). For other examples of screens in various contexts see: Lang, M., Waterworks in the Athenian Agora (Picture Bk. 11, 1968) fig. 22Google Scholar; Eschebach, H., Aqueducs romains, 88–9 (?)Google Scholar; Ingenieurtechnik, fig. 242; Wodociagi Rzymskie, 280.
35 Weber, 1898, 7, attributes a two-socketed elbow block to the junction between the header and stone mains at Laodikeia; see n. 36, below. Gräber, , AvPerg, 393Google Scholar, refers to stone outlet “pipes” at the header tank of the Great Aqueduct at Pergamon, but this is in the context of a clay line, and he gives no details.
36 Certain examples: Gräber, , AvPerg, 396Google Scholar, Fahlbusch, H., WA Hellas, 145 (clearing basin/header, Pergamon)Google Scholar; Weber, 1904, 94 (tank above city, Hierapolis). Probable example: Weber, 1898, 7 (header tank, Laodikeia). Possible examples: Weber, 1904, 91 (fountain?, Aphrodisias); Forchheimer, P., FiE 3 (1923) 250Google Scholar (no evidence of related structure cited). See also n. 73, below.
37 See n. 36 above.
38 1898, 7. See also, Weber, 1899, 12–13, where a similar hole in a standard stone pressure pipe block near the water tower at Smyrna is interpreted in the same way.
39 Cylinder valves: Squassi, F., L'Arte Idro-Sanitaria (1954) 78–80Google Scholar; Daremberg, C., Saglio, E., Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines, 2.1 (1892)Google Scholar s.v. epistomium. More detailed studies: Kretzschmer, F., Revue Archéologique de l'Est et du Centre Est 11 (1960) 89–113Google Scholar; Hodge, 1983, 202 n. 76, 203–4.
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41 Weber, 1898, 6–7, suggests that the curved course of the pipeline at Laodikeia was intentional, being more resistant to deformation than a straight one. This explanation works only if dislocating forces come from a single, predictable direction, which in this case is not true.
42 A single block of drafted polygonal masonry was noted in 1983 at the Kemerarasi site below Oinoanda. This might have come from the aqueduct, but the problem of thoroughgoing robbing restricted to its northern end remains unresolved.
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44 The account offered here, based on the indications of landform on the sketch map in Lanckoronski, op. cit. (n. 43), facing p. 85, may explain why the aqueduct did not follow a line straight to the city, a question which troubled J. B. Ward-Perkins (op. cit. (n. 43) 118) and Hodge, 1983, 188–9.
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59 Germain de Montauzan, 316–18.
60 Its size also suits this interpretation. There is no evidence for Germain de Montauzan's assertion (Germain de Montauzan, 318) that the small scale of manifolds results from their use in combination with large reservoirs; compare n. 54 above.
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68 On the effects of pressure and momentum on bends in pipelines, see Hodge, 1983, 200–4, or, for a more technical treatment, Cairney, , Hydraulics, 76–82Google Scholar (basic equations and use of concrete anchor blocks at bends). Biernacka-Lubańska, M., Wodociagi Rzymskie, 281Google Scholar, refers to stone elbows as “pressure intensifies”, which seems singularly inapposite. Other examples of such blocks: Stillwell, R., Antioch on the Orontes 2 (1938) 18Google Scholar, fig. 16, 19, fig. 17, 122, fig. 42; Lassus, J., Aqueducs romains, 219 (Antioch)Google Scholar; Crouch, D. P., Studia Palmyrenskie, 6–7 (1975), 173–6, esp. figs. 14, 15 (Palmyra)Google Scholar; Wodociagi Rzymskie, figs. 46, 148 (?) (Čatalka); Weber, 1898, 5 (?) (Laodikeia); id., 1899, 20 (Smyrna).
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71 Double sockets: Weber, 1899, 11, fig. 5 (Smyrna, pressure pipe block, bevelled steps), fig. 6 (Smyrna, two-socketed block), fig. 7 (Smyrna, two-socketed block with one single and one double socket); id., 1905, 202 (Magnesia ad Sipylum). Funnel sockets: Gräber, , AvPerg, Beil. 97.2, 3, 5, 7Google Scholar (socket and funnel combined), 97.6 (with pipe still inserted), 97.13 (Great Aqueduct, Pergamon); Wodociagi Rzymskie, fig. 42 (Sviščov).
72 On the blocks at Antioch, see: R. Stillwell, op. cit. (n. 68) 122. This interpretation clearly cannot apply to the vertical holes in stone pipe blocks discussed below (p. 50), but there is no reason why the two sorts of hole must have had the same function.
73 Fountains at Priene, (Priene, 76–80Google Scholar) and near the Tholos, Athens (Thompson, H. A., Hesperia (Suppl. 4, 1940) 96–8Google Scholar; Glaser, F., Antike Brunnenbauten in Griechenland (1983) 91–2Google Scholar and esp. fig. 172) incorporated vertical elbows in their bases; a separate stone elbow block with two branches at right angles to each other lies near the Roman fountain on the Sacred Way at the Asklepieion, Pergamon (personal observation). A cylindrical tube is bored in the base of the Statue Fountain in the Asklepieion, Epidaurus (Kavvadias, P., Praktika tis en Athinais Archaiologikis Etaireias (1922–1923) 24–5Google Scholar), and in each pillar of the street fountains of Pompeii (Eschebach, H., Pompeji (1978) 41Google Scholar). Semicircular furrows for separate pipes run up the parapets of basins in the Round Building of the Asklepieion, Pergamon (personal observation). Three small vertical offtakes in a stone reinforcement block from a double clay line at Palmyra (Crouch, D. P., Studia Palmyrenskie, 6–7 (1975) fig. 15Google Scholar) are arranged in a triangle and may have fed three spouts at the apex of a triangular fountain basin similar to that in her fig. 14, though its inlets are not visible. Finally, Weber, 1898, 5, attributes an elbow block with two outlets in the same face to a fountain because of dowel holes in another face. However, these may result from re-use, and anyway would imply a horizontal channel. Also in the horizontal plane are the stone elbows near the two fountains at Pella (Makaronas, C., AD 16 (1960) 81Google Scholar, 17B (1961–2) 212), though they must have connected with vertical channels.
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102 Germain de Montauzan, 59–63, 79, 90–3, 101–5, 118–35, 176–220.
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112 The tension in the cross-section of a pipe wall is given by the formula S = (P.d)/2W, where
S = tension (N/cm2)
P = pressure (N/cm2)
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138 In this case, using the same equation, A = π × 0·072, n = 0·013 ±, P = π × 0·14, i = 0·01 (or 0·005), so that Q = (0·0154/0·013) × 0·0352/3 × 0·011/2 (or × 0·0051/2 = 0·0127 (or 0·00896) m.3/sec = 1095 (or 774) m.3/day.
139 Using the equation Q = 1·446 × (h + v2/2g)3/2 × b, where
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g = gravitational acceleration (m./sec2)
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140 Multiple pipelines are mainly Hellenistic, e.g. the supplies to Pergamon (n. 129 above) and the Marnas supply to Ephesos (n. 25 above). See above p. 00.
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