Cloaca Maxima

Cloaca Maxima-01

Timeline

  • Regal period: The work is constructed, according to the literary sources
  • 33 BCE: Cleaned out by Agrippa

Physical evidence

  • Ran under the Forum Romanum to the southeast
  • 3m wide and tall
  • 5m beneath the ancient streets
  • In the Augustan era, made of red tufa from Aniene
  • Went in the direction of the center of the Basilica Aemilia
  • Flowed under the Basilica Julia

Literary sources

  • Cass. Dio 49.43
  • Dion. Hal. 3.67.5, 4.44.1
  • Liv. 1.38.6, 1.56.2
  • Plin. nat. 36.24
  • Strabo 5.8
  • Var. ling. 5.157