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Cistern
(334 words)

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I. General

Cisterns as storage for rain water or as reservoirs for spring and well water were customary and necessary for a regulated and sufficient  water supply in the climatically unfavourable regions of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, both as small systems for individual houses and farms and as communal systems for settlements.

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II. Ancient Orient

s.  Water supply I. D.

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Höcker, Christoph (Kissing) and Niemeyer, Hans Georg (Hamburg), “Cistern”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e12217540>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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