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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ro1974, post: 3079727, member: 73358&quot;]Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Dupondius (26mm, 13.01 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 111. Radiate bust right, slight drapery / </p><p>n two lines in exergue, Genius of the Aqua Traiana, holding reed and leaning on overturned urn, reclining left under arched and ornamented grotto supported by two columns.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]775278[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]775279[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;he <b>Aqua Traiana</b> (later rebuilt and named the <b>Acqua Paola</b>) was a 1st-century <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_aqueduct" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_aqueduct" rel="nofollow">Roman aqueduct</a> built by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Trajan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Trajan" rel="nofollow">Emperor Trajan</a> and inaugurated on 24 June 109 AD.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Traiana#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Traiana#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> It channelled water from sources around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bracciano" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bracciano" rel="nofollow">Lake Bracciano</a>, 40 kilometers (25 mi) north-west of Rome, to Rome in ancient Roman times but had fallen into disuse by the 17th century. It fed a number of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_mill" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_mill" rel="nofollow">water mills</a> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janiculum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janiculum" rel="nofollow">Janiculum</a>, including a sophisticated mill complex revealed by excavations in the 1990s under the present <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Academy_in_Rome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Academy_in_Rome" rel="nofollow">American Academy in Rome</a>. Some of the Janiculum mills were famously put out of action by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths" rel="nofollow">Ostrogoths</a> when they cut the aqueduct in 537 during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Rome_(537%E2%80%9338)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Rome_(537%E2%80%9338)" rel="nofollow">first siege of Rome</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius" rel="nofollow">Belisarius</a> restored the supply of grain by using mills floating in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiber" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiber" rel="nofollow">Tiber</a>. The complex of mills bears parallels with a similar complex at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbegal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbegal" rel="nofollow">Barbegal</a> in southern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul" rel="nofollow">Gaul</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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