Introduzione. Dighe, argini e opere difensive contro le inondazioni nel mediterraneo romano: introduzione e breve stato dell’arte

[EN] Among the infrastructures designed to control river flow in Roman times (dams), the ones that have most interested for the scientific community have been those of large scale and mainly located in arid or semi-arid regions. The monumentality of these works, their extreme location and, not infre...

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Author: Barahona Oviedo, María Luisa
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Publication Date:2025
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Keyword:Dam
Diversion dam
Dykes
Flood control
Floodwaters
Hydraulic engineering
Roman Italy
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spelling Introduzione. Dighe, argini e opere difensive contro le inondazioni nel mediterraneo romano: introduzione e breve stato dell’arteDams, dykes and flood defence works in roman mediterranean. introduction and a brief state of the artBarahona Oviedo, María LuisaDamDiversion damDykesFlood controlFloodwatersHydraulic engineeringRoman Italy[EN] Among the infrastructures designed to control river flow in Roman times (dams), the ones that have most interested for the scientific community have been those of large scale and mainly located in arid or semi-arid regions. The monumentality of these works, their extreme location and, not infrequently, the difficulty of their scientific study, have given rise to a distorted vision of the Roman dams as monumental and unusual (almost exotic) works built to irrigate or, to a lesser extent, to supply urban centres. Other types of dams, more numerous but smaller in dimensions and with a less apparent structural presence, have not suffered the same fate in the scientific literature, thus creating a false sensation of a material vacuum in this subject, far removed from reality. Many of these (small) dams, in addition to being linked to irrigation or be part of the urban water systems, like the big dams, had a specific defensive function against floods, often forming part of complex systems together with other infrastructures, such as dykes or other actions carried out on the banks of rivers (e. g., dredging operations or riverbed levelling). The scientific attention paid to these latter types of works is extremely limited throughout the Roman Mediterranean, and they are hardly mentioned in the great compendia of ancient hydraulic engineering. However, its study is essential in order to gain a deeper and more realistic understanding of the full extent of the dominion that Roman culture exercised over river courses, and to properly understand the function of these dams as a part of the Roman systems of territorial exploitation.Peer reviewedConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)Barahona Oviedo, María Luisa [0000-0001-7706-6321]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202620262025info:eu-repo/semantics/otherhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/420651reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)ItalianoSerie Arqueológica22http://libros.csic.es/product_info.php?products_id=1982Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/4206512026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Introduzione. Dighe, argini e opere difensive contro le inondazioni nel mediterraneo romano: introduzione e breve stato dell’arte
Dams, dykes and flood defence works in roman mediterranean. introduction and a brief state of the art
title Introduzione. Dighe, argini e opere difensive contro le inondazioni nel mediterraneo romano: introduzione e breve stato dell’arte
spellingShingle Introduzione. Dighe, argini e opere difensive contro le inondazioni nel mediterraneo romano: introduzione e breve stato dell’arte
Barahona Oviedo, María Luisa
Dam
Diversion dam
Dykes
Flood control
Floodwaters
Hydraulic engineering
Roman Italy
title_short Introduzione. Dighe, argini e opere difensive contro le inondazioni nel mediterraneo romano: introduzione e breve stato dell’arte
title_full Introduzione. Dighe, argini e opere difensive contro le inondazioni nel mediterraneo romano: introduzione e breve stato dell’arte
title_fullStr Introduzione. Dighe, argini e opere difensive contro le inondazioni nel mediterraneo romano: introduzione e breve stato dell’arte
title_full_unstemmed Introduzione. Dighe, argini e opere difensive contro le inondazioni nel mediterraneo romano: introduzione e breve stato dell’arte
title_sort Introduzione. Dighe, argini e opere difensive contro le inondazioni nel mediterraneo romano: introduzione e breve stato dell’arte
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Diversion dam
Dykes
Flood control
Floodwaters
Hydraulic engineering
Roman Italy
topic Dam
Diversion dam
Dykes
Flood control
Floodwaters
Hydraulic engineering
Roman Italy
description [EN] Among the infrastructures designed to control river flow in Roman times (dams), the ones that have most interested for the scientific community have been those of large scale and mainly located in arid or semi-arid regions. The monumentality of these works, their extreme location and, not infrequently, the difficulty of their scientific study, have given rise to a distorted vision of the Roman dams as monumental and unusual (almost exotic) works built to irrigate or, to a lesser extent, to supply urban centres. Other types of dams, more numerous but smaller in dimensions and with a less apparent structural presence, have not suffered the same fate in the scientific literature, thus creating a false sensation of a material vacuum in this subject, far removed from reality. Many of these (small) dams, in addition to being linked to irrigation or be part of the urban water systems, like the big dams, had a specific defensive function against floods, often forming part of complex systems together with other infrastructures, such as dykes or other actions carried out on the banks of rivers (e. g., dredging operations or riverbed levelling). The scientific attention paid to these latter types of works is extremely limited throughout the Roman Mediterranean, and they are hardly mentioned in the great compendia of ancient hydraulic engineering. However, its study is essential in order to gain a deeper and more realistic understanding of the full extent of the dominion that Roman culture exercised over river courses, and to properly understand the function of these dams as a part of the Roman systems of territorial exploitation.
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