الجمعة، 4 مارس 2011

Roman bridge in Iraq

"Roman bridge, Eski Mosul, with policeman on the right. Cat. Stein LHAS Photo 23/1 (38).  
Photo by the Hungarian-British archaeologist Aurel Stein reconstructing the route of Alexander the Great in Persia, 1930s.
First publication: the Aurel Stein site of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences prepared by us, April 2008."

From the ever-interesting Poemas del rio Wang, which has a second photo (?of the same bridge).  I presume there was some sort of ramp structure or additional arches, and that the working bridge would have looked something like this one:
I would also assume that the waterway was more formidable in Roman times (or, perhaps more likely, that the flow is seasonal).

The Iraqi bridge is very cool, but I presume it is probably long gone now.

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