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| ARCHITECTURE |
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| DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM |
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| Water: a history | 
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WATER : A HISTORY
Several copies of two different inscriptions referring to the aqueducts have been found in Vienne. They were, perhaps, placed near fountains supplied by the aqueduct to which they referred. The first records the gift from two quattuorvirs, that is, two magistrates, to the colonists of Vienne of "new water" and the passage of this water through their property. The second, later one repeats the terms of the first and bears an addition : the daughter of one of the magistrates bequeaths 50,000 sesterces "for the conservation in perpetuity of these signs". The presence of these inscriptions honouring donors is strong evidence of the importance accorded these installations since the two donors gloried in associating their names with the construction of an aqueduct.