Latrinae Roman toilets in the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire / edited by Stefanie Hoss.

Other author Hoss, Stefanie.
Other author Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2018]
Descriptionii, 151 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 30 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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SeriesArchaeopress Roman Archaeology ; 31
Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; 31. ^A1265770
Contents Introduction / Stefanie Hoss -- Sewers or cesspits? Modern assumptions and Roman preferences / Gemma Jansen -- The latrine at the Roman fort on the Antonine Wall at Bearsden / David J. Breeze -- Flushed with success : a Roman flushing installation in the latrines of the Great Bathouse of the Colonia Ulpia Traiana near Xanten (D) / Norbert Zieling -- The latrines of Roman Aachen / Andreas Schaub -- An outhouse inthe garden? : Looking at a bckyard in the vicus of Bonn / Jeanne-Nora Andrikopoulou-Strack, Manuel Fiedler and Constanze Höpken -- A bath with public toilets in the vicus of Bonn / Gary White -- The Roman public toilet of Rottenburg am Neckar / Stefanie Hoss -- Latrines connected to bathouses in Germania inferior : an overview / Michael Dodt -- Roman toilets in Nijmegen, Oppidum Batavorum and Ulpia Noviomagus, the Netherlands / Elly N.A. Heirbaut -- Arlon, apport des découvertes récentes dans le vicus à l'examen des latrines gallo-romaines / Denis Henrotay -- A Roman latrine near St. Kolumba in Cologne and its remarkable contents / Michael Dodt -- Latrine pits in the Roman vicus of Vitudurum : Oberwintherthur (Switzerland) / Verena Jauch -- A Roman cesspit from the mid-2nd century with lead price tags in the civil town of Carnuntum (Schloss Petronell/Austria) / Beatrix Petznek -- Roman chamber pots / Beatrix Petznek -- A Roman "toilet bowl" from Speicher (Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) / Bernd Bienert -- The meaning of stercus in Roman military papyri : dung or human faeces? Or : who is supposed to clean this shit up? / Kai Juntunen.
Summary This volume presents a selection of papers and case studies first presented at a conference designed to focus on the toilets of the Northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire, taking place at Radboud University on the 1st and 2nd of May 2009. Papers demonstrate the value of scientific analysis of waste to understand the food habits and diseases of the Roman users of the toilet, while elsewhere questions on how to find the necessary expertise and financing for such investigations were raised.
General noteIncludes some of the papers presented at a conference at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, May 1-2, 2009, and other articles.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
LanguageArticles in English, with one in French.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018487290
ISBN9781784917258
ISBN1784917257
ISBN9781784917265 (e-PDF)
ISBN1784917265 (e-PDF)

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