File:Great Drain 1- Ancient Agora of Athens.JPG
Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 180 × 240 pixels | 360 × 480 pixels | 960 × 1,280 pixels.
Original file (960 × 1,280 pixels, file size: 443 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
 | This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
| Description |
English: Great Drain. Early 5th century BC: Drain with width and breadth of 1 m., its side walls of polygonal masonry with a tiled bottom and large covering slabs. Its purpose was to convery to the Eridane River waste from the buildings of the Agora and rainwater from the surrounding hills. Its main channel crosses the west side of the Agora from south to north beneath the paving of the "West Street". At the beginning of the 4th century BC. two branches were added immediately south of the Tholos, one to the southeast and one to the southwest, to bring rainwater and waste from a broader section of the Agora into the main channel. In later antiquity the statue of the emperor Hadrian, set up on the "West Street" was used as a cover slab for the drain. |
| Date | |
| Source |
Own work Español: Gran drenaje. Principios del siglo V a. C: Drenaje con una anchura de 1 m., Sus paredes laterales son de mampostería poligonal con un fondo de mosaico y grandes losas de cobertura. Su propósito era recoger los desechos del río Erídano de los edificios del Ágora y el agua de lluvia de las colinas circundantes. Su canal principal cruza el lado oeste del Ágora de sur a norte bajo el pavimento de la "Calle del Oeste". A principios del siglo IV a. C. se añadieron dos ramas inmediatamente al sur del Tholos, una al sudeste y otra al sudoeste, para llevar el agua de lluvia y los desechos de una sección más amplia del Ágora al canal principal. En la antigüedad posterior, la estatua del emperador Adriano, instalada en la "Calle del Oeste", fue utilizada como una losa de cubierta para el desagüe. |
| Author | Dorieo |
| Other versions |
|
Licensing
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
I, Jerónimo Roure Pérez, have published this work under the terms of the license CC BY-SA 4.0, which allow you use and share this work, and create derivative works; under the condition of give me credit of the work using the same license. For that, please, add legibly:
Use this work in compliance with the terms of the license! If you use this work outside of the Wikimedia Projects, you can contact with me sending an email to |
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Attribution:
Jerónimo Roure Pérez
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 10:16, 17 October 2009 | | 960 × 1,280 (443 KB) | Dorieo | {{Information |Description={{en|1=Great Drain. Early 5th century BC: Drain with width and breadth of 1 m., its side walls of polygonal masonry with a tiled bottom and large covering slabs. Its purpose was to convery to the Eridane River waste from the bui |
File usage
The following page uses this file:
