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Bridges, aqueducts and hydraulic works

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Aquae Convenarum

Aquae Convenarum, "waters of the Convenae", a Roman thermal station in Gaul on the Tabula Peutingeriana (Aquis Convenarum, 457,7), Barrington Atlas 25 F2, identified with Bagnères-de-Bigorre or Capvern in the French Pyrenees.

Castra ad Herculem

Castra ad Herculem was a late Roman fort at Pilismarót in Komárom-Esztergom County, Hungary, built at the Danube bend between 294 and 297 AD under Diocletian.

Gyroulas

Gyroulas (Γύρουλας) is an archaeological site south of Sangri, Naxos: an 8th-century-BC open-air sanctuary of Demeter, Kore and Apollo, later an all-marble Archaic temple of Lygdamis's reign, converted into a Christian basilica.

Minnodunum

Minnodunum (Minodum), Roman vicus at Moudon, canton of Vaud, Switzerland, in the civitas of the Helvetii on the Lousonna-Aventicum road; known from the Antonine Itinerary, Tabula Peutingeriana, and a 1732 altar recording a 750-denarius endowment.

Ponte Fonnaia

Ponte Fonnaia is a Roman bridge near Massa Martana in Umbria, Italy, that carried the western branch of the Via Flaminia over a tributary of the Naia river.

Temple of Vespasian and Titus

Temple of Vespasian (Templum Divi Vespasiani), Roman Forum temple begun by Titus in 79 CE for his deified father, completed by Domitian before 87, restored by Septimius Severus; three Corinthian columns still stand.

Tholos of Athens

Tholos of Athens (also Skias): circular 465 BC building in the Agora's southwest corner, headquarters and dining hall of the fifty Prytaneis, keeper of official weights and measures, abandoned around AD 400.

Tincontium

Tincontium (Tincollo, Tinconcium), a Roman road station in Gaul identified with Sancoins, Cher, France, on the Bourges–Decize road between Avaricum and Deccidae per the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana.

Transdierna

Transdierna (Transdiana), Roman fort on the right bank of the Danube at Tekija, Serbia, opposite Dierna (Orșova); attested by Procopius, De Aedif. IV, 4; a bridgehead pair of the Iron Gates Danube limes, active in the Dacian Wars.

Trimammium

Trimammium: Roman fort on the Lower Danube limes near Mechka, Ruse Region, Bulgaria, also called Trimamio on the Tabula Peutingeriana; garrisoned by cohors I Bracarorum and later milites Constantini, with a Moesian fleet base.