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discovered the source of the aqueduct of Trajan
Two British filmmakers, Michael and Ted O'Neill, have come in from the remains of a nymph sometimes colored blue
ROME - Left unknown to this day, it was incredibly found in the province of Rome, in an area on the Fiora Ditch the border between the town of Manzanita and Bracciano, the Caput Aquae aqueduct of Trajan, which is the first source of the route around the Lake Bracciano aqueduct opened in 109 AD to serve the urban area of \u200b\u200bTrastevere.
NINFEO TIMES WITH BLUE - In making the discovery, two British filmmakers, Michael and Ted O'Neill, engaged in research on Roman aqueducts, which they encountered the remains of a nymph with stunning blue colored Egyptian times. And the importance of the finding is confirmed by the archaeologist Lorenzo Quilici, a professor of ancient topography at the University of Bologna, which defines the nymph "astounding." Covered by an artificial cave that housed a chapel of the Madonna, rearranged in the early eighteenth century by the principles Odescalchi - Quilici anticipates that January 28 will present the discovery along with Ted and Michael O'Neill at a press conference in Rome - came out of a monument 'which proved to be a nymph, built the first of the sources of origin, "a monument extraordinary, "says the professor, 'we can compare the Canopus at Hadrian's Villa or in Nymph Egeria Triopo of Herodes Atticus on the Appia Antica.
viable channels - It says Quilici, "a central chapel dedicated to the god of the source or nymphs, which deepens the sides into two basins covered by extraordinary times more color in Egyptian blue, the base, with a bold blocks placed at the filter system, allowed the water in two lakes, of which part of the aqueduct channel. " The structures, up to 8-9 meters tall, are made, says the professor, "brickwork and reticulated highly educated and those with barrel vaults and cross vaults, wells, uptake of the tunnels that they converge, the channel that principle, the underground aqueduct are all now viable because private water. "
FIG TREE ROOTS - Going into at the moment is an adventure, tells Michael and Ted O'Neill, father and son, Meoni HDTV Productions for the documentary, because the place, which is housed in a small properties where pigs are bred, uncultured and is mainly covered by a giant fig tree with roots that go down to the deepest of the nymph, among other things, undermining the structure. Hard work rewarded, however, according Quilici 'emotion to access a monument remained secret for centuries and the extraordinary its architecture. "
COINS WITH THE RIVER GOD - The aqueduct of Trajan was the penultimate in chronological order of the eleven major aqueducts that supplied Rome. Established in 109 AD, was almost always running. At the beginning of the seventeenth century Pope Paul V had it restored. The aqueduct, however, the pope took water from Lake Bracciano, as yet brought about the present, while the Roman aqueduct along the way picked up the waters of the springs that fed the basin. To celebrate his work, Trajan had also minted coins on which depicts the image of a half-reclining river god under a large arch flanked by columns. For centuries it was believed that the image postpone the exhibition of water that the emperor would build on the Gianicolo, in anticipation of 1500 years, the fountain of Paul V. But perhaps - is suggestive of the hypothesis O'Neill - the one depicted on a coin is exactly the nymph grotto of Bracciano, which now is the hope that Ted and Michael have turned to this supervision, should be studied and restored. (Source: USA Today) January 23, 2010
