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installation	Reservoir of Aspar
name	Reservoir of Aspar - taken into reuse
event type	Reuse
start date	766
end date	1000
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description	Hero of Byzantium (10th century) records in his Geodesia that he measured the cistern. He still speaks of calculating "how many keramia of liquid it is capable of holding. Simultaneously, the manuscript of Geodosia* shows a filled cistern.
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#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Crow, Bardill & Bayliss 2008	131-132
2	Hero of Byzantium 950	139-141	(Geodesia 9) Let us then use a parallelogram-shaped and oblong construction or reservoir similar in form, for example, to the cistern of Aetius, to make clear the measurement of the solid. It is rather easier with that of Aspar because of the equal dimensions of its base, the figure being a plinth ... Let the base then be assumed as the length of the cistern of Apar, 70 orgyai. I seek then to find how many keramia of liquid it is capable of holding. Multiplying the 70 of the length by the same 70 of the width, I have the plane on the base as 4,900 orgyai. These then in turn I multiply by the 12 of the height and there are 58,800 ...