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A puteal ( Latin: from ''puteus'' (well) — plural: ''putealia''Venetian Wellheads @ Venipedia
Accessed May 25, 2012. ) is a classical wellhead built around a water well's access opening.
The enclosure keeps people from falling down a well otherwise open at grade level.John Weale, ''Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture, Naval, Building and Construction, Early and Ecclesiastical Art, Engineering, Civil, Engineering, Mechanical, Fine Art, Mining, Sur-veying, Etc., to Which Are Added Explanatory Observations on Numerous Subjects Connected with Practical Art and Science''. (London: J. Weale, 1849), pg. 364. When equipped with a cast iron lid, as traditionally in the public squares, or ''campos'', of
Accessed May 25, 2012. ) is a classical wellhead built around a water well's access opening.
Description
The enclosure keeps people from falling down a well otherwise open at grade level.John Weale, ''Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture, Naval, Building and Construction, Early and Ecclesiastical Art, Engineering, Civil, Engineering, Mechanical, Fine Art, Mining, Sur-veying, Etc., to Which Are Added Explanatory Observations on Numerous Subjects Connected with Practical Art and Science''. (London: J. Weale, 1849), pg. 364. When equipped with a cast iron lid, as traditionally in the public squares, or ''campos'', of Venice, Italy
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islan ...
, the citizens and water supply were protected.
Putealia were used as an accessible point of water distribution, and as an aesthetic architectural element. Locations included public town squares and private courtyards. They were often found in atriums, where they gave access to the water cistern fed by the '' impluvium''.
Classical putealia
The classical puteal is made of carved stone, often marble in Europe. They are frequently decorated with bas-reliefs of classical Greek and Roman themes around their outer faces. AnAncient Roman
In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC ...
one was in the Puteal Scribonianum
The ''Puteal Scribonianum'' (Scribonian Puteal) or ''Puteal Libonis'' (Puteal of Libo) was a structure in the Forum Romanum in Ancient Rome. p. 434 A puteal was a classical wellhead, round or sometimes square, placed atop a well opening to keep peo ...
structure in the Roman Forum
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum ( it, Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient ...
, nothing remains.
The term is also used for circular classical remains ( spolia) recycled after antiquity into wellheads, such as the Guildford Puteal
The Guilford Puteal is a Pentelic marble Ancient Roman sculpture. Its name derives from its use as a puteal or wellhead, and one of its previous owners, Frederick North, second Earl of Guilford. Its discovery in Corinth gives rise to an altern ...
at the British Museum.
See also
*Bidental
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In Religion in ancient Rome, ancient Roman religion, a Bidental was a sacred shrine erected on the spot where lightning had struck.
Creation
Any remains and scorched earth at the spot were to be burned in a hole at the location by priests cal ...
* Fontus, Fontus (Fons) — the ancient Roman god of fountains and wellheads
* Wishing well
References
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