ID: 700002802 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002802	Record Type: Built Work
Images: 1

Cloaca Maxima (sewer (drainage structure); unknown Italian (architects); ca. 6th century BCE, with peri...; Rome (Roma, Lazio, Italia, Europe, World, Top of the TGN hie...)

Note: Ancient Roman aqueduct system constructed in order to drain local marshes, carrying waste to the River Tiber. It became a sewer during Imperial Rome, with regular renovations and alterations. Scholars date the first iteration of the system to the era of Tarquinius Superbus, in the 6th century BCE.

Titles:

Cloaca Maxima (preferred,C,U,English,L,,Latin,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sewer (drainage structure) [300006122] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, hydraulic structures, <hydraulic structures by function>, drainage structures)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 6th century BCE, with periodic renovations

Creator Display:

unknown Italian (architects) [preferred,VP]

architect unknown Italian (Italian cultural designation) [500125250]

Locations:

Current: Roma [7000874] Roma province (province), Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Address Note: 41.8957 12.4848

Display Materials: stone

	stone (worked rock) [300011176]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), <rock by form>)

Dimensions: unavailable

Cultures:

Ancient Roman (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: fortifications, transportation, bridges, barriers, military, and engineering works

Sources and Contributors:
Cloaca Maxima	........ [VP]
	........ Platner, Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1929)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Hopkins, Cloaca Maxima, Waters of Rome (2007)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Platner, Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1929)
	..... Hopkins, Cloaca Maxima, Waters of Rome (2007)