Title

Italy, Pompeii

Caption

Italy. Pompeii. Structure over the water well. Each building had its private cistern collected rain water falling on the surrounding roof. Then it was conducted to a tank (impluvium). Campania.

Date

2002

Credit line

Photo12/Universal Images Group

Reference

UMG20B25_176

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,2Mb (10,5Mb) / 12,6in x 15,8in / 3781 x 4734 (300dpi)

Keywords

well Campania Consolare Europe Italian Italy Pompei Pompeian Pompeii Roman Roman Empire Roman society Romans Unesco World Heritage Site Urbanism ancient ancient Rome ancient age antique archaeology archeological site archeology architecture basin brick building cistern city collected deposit dispersed distribution engineering era european exterior falling history house impluvium infraestructure life on Roman city no people nobdoy private rain water rainwater rock semi-circular semicircular storage store street structure surrounding tank via Consolare water tank water towers well