Cities, villages, fortresses - Vaud (Waadt) - Avenches (Aventicum) - Aqueducts, harbour, canal

Introduction Lay-out, city wall, houses The forum and its surroundings The Derrière la Tour palace The West Sanctuary Precinct

The Cigognier and Au Lavoëx temples Mithraea The theatre and the amphitheatre Lost mosaics Workshops

Aqueducts, harbour, canal The cemeteries Late antiquity

Water was taken to the city by six or seven aqueducts (underground channels), with sources to the east and south-east of the city. The shortest aqueduct was only 200 meters long, the longest 19.5 kilometers.

Map with the aqueducts. Grezet 2006, fig. 6.

On the Murtensee, 1.3 km. away, a harbour was built at the locality Les Joncs. A first quay, measuring 100 x 32-36 m., was built in the first decade of the first century. The harbour was connected with the city by a street, 7 m. wide, and by a canal leading to the artisanal En Chaplix quarter to the north of the city. The canal was almost 800 m. long and 7 m. wide. Dendrochronology has provided a date of 125 AD. There has been speculation that it was built by Caius Camillius Paternus, whose name was preserved on a column, the support of a statue, that was found near the north end of the canal.

Map of the area to the north of the city. 1: harbour; 2: road: 3: canal; 4: funerary-religious complex at En Chaplix; 5: Villa at Le Russalet.

	SILVANO ET NEPTVNO APRILIS C(ai) CAMILLI PATERNI SER(vus)
	For Silvanus and Neptunus. Aprilis, of Caius Camillius Paternus slave.
	Reconstruction of the support of a statue set up by Aprilis, slave of Caius Camillius Paternus. Total h. 3.80. EDCS-05000641; Kolb et al. 2022, nr. 158. De Pury-Gysel 2012(2), Abb. 46.

Introduction Lay-out, city wall, houses The forum and its surroundings The Derrière la Tour palace The West Sanctuary Precinct

The Cigognier and Au Lavoëx temples Mithraea The theatre and the amphitheatre Lost mosaics Workshops

Aqueducts, harbour, canal The cemeteries Late antiquity

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