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Notes on water cisterns in Antiquity on the Eastern Adriatic coast

As for human life in general, so for every settlement, village, city and military camp, access to a reliable water supply is of vital importance. The care taken in regard to water supply is especially visible in the Mediterranean, a part of which is the Eastern Adriatic. Naturally, there is a stronger need for water storage in this geographical context. The most common solution to the challenge is the construction of water tanks i.e. water cisterns. The same was true in Antiquity. I want to emphasize how extremely grateful I am for having been given the opportunity to present this paper in a collection of works honoring the 65th birthday of our professor Mirjana Sanader. During her research in Gardun, Professor Sanader has uncovered, documented and presented a large water cistern found in the context of the Roman legionary camp Tilurium. The main goal of this short paper is to determine how much and in what way water cisterns of Antiquity are overall presented in Croatian archaeology. Even though scholars in Croatia have been publishing papers on the subject since the end of the 19th c., the topic of water supply in Antiquity and the role cisterns had in it was never systematically observed. The greatest number of these water cisterns in Croatia can be found in Istria, which is where this list begins.

water supply, water cistern, Antiquity, Istria, Dalmatia

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