- WATER NETWORK
- Zaghouan (Zica in classical times) lies at the
foot of a 1.295 metre high mountain.
- The large quantities of water found here explain
why in classical times there were spas (with
baths, temple round a spring and jebel oust
residential area) and why carthage was supplied
from jebel Zaghouan and jebel Juggar.
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- THE NYMPHAEUM ( Temple
of the Waters )
- Built under HADRIAN ( 117-138 A .D ), this is a
30-metre semi-circle bordered by a
vaulted gallery, in the centre of
which was the temple to the place's protective
deity 12 other statues of nymphs decorated the
gallery.
- A double colonnade enclosed the two wings of the
semicircle, rising above the bilobed pool where
the water clarified.
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- THE LA MALGA TANKS
- Built under hadrian, the reservoirs of la M alga
and Borj Jedid supplied carthage with drinking
water The la Malga reservoir contained 24tanks,
816m, long and 8m wide
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- HADRIAN'S AQUEDUCT
- Built between 120 and 131 under HADRIAN, it was
restord in 203 under SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS . The
Vandals smashed it about but it was restored
again by the Byzantines. The it was cut by HASSAN
IBN NOOMAN during the siege of Carthage in 698
- It was restored in the 10th c under
the Fatimids, and again in the 13th c
under the Hafsids (Al Mostansir), who built
diversion canals to Tunis and the sultan's
gardens
- Much of the 132km long aqueduct runs
underground.