The Aqueduct of Aspendos
The Aqueduct of Aspendos
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阿斯潘多斯渡槽
DOI：
10.1017/s0068246200006656
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发表时间：
1955
影响因子：
0.4
通讯作者：
J. Perkins
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作者：
J. Perkins
在潘菲利亚保存的罗马时期的许多精美文物中，没有一件比阿斯彭多斯的渡槽更令人印象深刻。阿斯潘多斯的上城占据了一个椭圆形的平顶山，面积约50英亩，河流约60米。在古欧律墨冬河（Eurymedon）右岸的草地上。构成这座山的岩石是一种粗糙的含砾砾岩，尽管它的高度不高，但山顶轮廓分明，四面都是陡峭的陡坡。与安塔利亚地区的水平、阶梯状石灰岩不同，潘菲利亚平原的东部由平缓起伏的第四纪地层组成。伊苏里亚山脉的山麓在东边不远处，往北走一小段路就有更高的地面。但是，阿斯彭多斯的遗址被欧律墨冬河本身切断了与前者的联系，而与后者的联系又被它的一条西部支流的宽阔的、倾斜的山谷切断了。尽管这个遗址并不是一个具有突出的自然力量的地方，但它显然是一个定居点的选择，因为在古代和今天，这个地区是东部和西部潘菲利亚之间所有陆路交通的最低可行通道。
Among the many fine antiquities of the Roman period that are preserved in Pamphylia, none is more immediately impressive than the aqueduct of Aspendos. The upper town of Aspendos occupies an oval, flat-topped hill, some 50 acres in extent and river about 60 m. above the meadows on the right bank of the Köyürirmaǧi, the ancient river Eurymedon. The rock of which the hill is composed is a coarse, pebbly conglomerate, and despite its modest height the hill-top is sharply defined, with steeply scarped slopes on all four sides. The eastern part of the Pamphylian plain, unlike the level, terraced limestones of the Antalya district, consists of gently rolling quaternary formations. The foothills of the Isaurian mountains are not far distant to the east, and there is higer ground only a short way to the north. But the site of Aspendos was cut off from the former by the Eurymedon itself, and from the latter by the wide, shelving valley of one of its western tributaries; and although the site is not one of outstanding natural strength, it was the obvious choice for a settlement in a district which, in antiquity as today, commanded the lowest practicable crossing for all land-traffic between eastern and western Pamphylia.