Phoenice was part of those ancient towns of Epirus which were favored by the conditions imposed by the policy of Rome. In Roman times inside the town were built new constructions which included the renovation of public buildings. A work of this period related to the water supply system of the town is cistern A. Labeled as such by the first digger of Phoenice, the Italian archaeologist Luigi Maria Ugolini, this cistern was built within the walls of the Hellenistic terrace. The cistern A has a rectangular form and it was severely damaged by the construction of a military facility (during the period of the communist regime) within its structure. The cistern A measures 18,5x15,2 m, and it has a higher point of max 3,4 m. It is built in an opus mixtum of incertum and testaceum with rows of bricks. It is dated to the Roman imperial period, probably to the 2nd century AD.

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