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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, host institution.

Hoss, Stefanie, editor.

Series:

Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; 31.

Archaeopress Roman Archaeology ; 31

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Toilets--Rome--History--Congresses.

Toilets.

Toilets--Europe, Western--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Europe, Western--Antiquities, Roman--Congresses.

Europe, Western.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2018]

Language Note:

Articles in English, with one in French.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes some of the papers presented at a conference at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, May 1-2, 2009, and other articles.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781784917265

1784917265