Picture
© The Artist
THE ARTWALKER PROJECT
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Clint McClintic
"Basilica
Cistern"
Turkey
Medium
Watercolour
5 x 7"
Painted
1999
Price
$300
Original
$30 Archival art quality print
Picture
ID
334-5
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Artist's
Notes
Underneath a main street, then down a long staircase, is the awesome Yerebetan Cistern, for underground water storage. A total of 336 columns support the structures above, a space bigger than two football fields. The cistern was first built under a basilica by 7000 Roman slaves in 542 A.D. Water to fill it was delivered by an aqueduct from 19 km away.
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