Water Infrastructure of Petra
To begin the discussion of Nabataean water system development and its progress toward utilizing all possible resources to meet increasing population demands, solid and dashed lines of Fig. 1 detail the supply and distribution pipeline system leading water into the urban core of Petra. Numbered locations denote the major buildings, temples, and site features listed in the figure legend. Shown are major dams (-d), cisterns (c), water distribution tanks (T), and springs (s). The (-d) dams located across streambeds (wadis) are barrier structures built to hold larger quantities of water for redistribution to urban structures or localized agricultural areas. Dams denoted (d) are minor catchment structures that stored water in mountainous areas to prevent its descent to the Petra basin and/or have channels leading water to lower-level cisterns. The superimposed grid system (A, B, C; 1, 2, 3) defines a coordinate system of 1.0 km2grid boxes to enable the...
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Ortloff, C.R. (2014). Hydraulic Engineering in Petra. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10173-1
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