Ephesus was supplied by several long-distance water conveyance systems in ancient times. The 8 km long Şirince water conveyance system consists of baked clay pipes, and had a hydraulic capacity of around 10 l/s. The 7 km long Derbentdere water conveyance system consists also of baked clay pipes; and its hydraulic capacity was around 20 l/s. The 36 km long Değirmendere water conveyance system is a masonry conduit; its hydraulic capacity was around 200 l/s. The 42 km long Kayapınar water conveyance was also a masonry conduit; its hydraulic capacity was around 100 l/s. The Şirince system was extended over to the Ayasuluk hill and Saint John basilica in the 6th century ad by the 650 m long Selcuk aqueduct, serving as the venter of an inverted siphon.
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Ünal Öziş;
Ünal Öziş
1Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, 35160 Buca-İzmir, Turkey
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Ayhan Atalay;
Ayhan Atalay
2Garaj cad., 2.sok.3/4, 09020 Aydın, Turkey
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Yalçın Özdemir
3Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, 35160 Buca-İzmir, Turkey
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Water Supply (2014) 14 (6): 1010–1017.
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March 12 2014
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May 08 2014
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Ünal Öziş, Ayhan Atalay, Yalçın Özdemir; Hydraulic capacity of ancient water conveyance systems to Ephesus. Water Supply 1 December 2014; 14 (6): 1010–1017. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2014.055
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