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Buildings intended primarily to contain and deliver water. These include aquaducts, baptisteries, conduits, lavoirs, fountains, public baths, spring-houses, step wells and well-heads. To be listed here a site should have a focus on the architecture of the structure, rather than its engineering or social value.
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LacusCurtius: Roman Fountains - Article from William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1875), illustrated with three woodcuts. Catholic Encyclopedia: Baptistery - The separate building in which the sacrament of baptism was once solemnly administered, or that portion of the church-edifice later set apart for the same purpose. The Early Christian Baptisteries of Rome - The Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome provides an illustrated introduction to the type and its function, and information on the remains of a baptistery belonging to the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina.
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