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Water in ancient Mediterranean households / edited by Rick Bonnie and Patrik Klingborg.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Global perspectives on ancient Mediterranean archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.
- Water-supply.
- Water-supply--Social aspects--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.
- Water and civilization--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.
- Water and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Rick Bonnie is a University Lecturer in Museology at the University of Helsinki, Finland, where he researches and teaches on museum and heritage ethics, object biographies, decolonisation and provenance issues, museum collection histories, and sensory archaeology. He is the author of Being Jewish in Galilee, 100-200 CE: An Archaeological Study (2019). Among other work, Rick recently led a project that studied the impact of past climatic changes on the rise and fall of Jewish ritual purification baths in Hasmonean-Roman Judaea through hydrological modelling and contextual archaeological analysis. Patrik Klingborg is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden, primarily studying water usage in the ancient Greek world. Within the framework of this, he has focused on non-monumental water sources such as cisterns and wells, as well as how water was used within ancient Greek religion. He is also part of the board of the Frontinus-Gesellschaft and participates in fieldwork by the Swedish Institute at Athens.
- Contents:
- Household Water, Environment and Economy in Ancient Piraeus / Jane Millar Tully
- Rainwater Collection Strategies in Pompeian Houses / Gemma Jansen
- Water as Social Inequality in Late Roman Britain / James Gerrard.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2023).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Water in ancient Mediterranean households
- ISBN:
- 9781003268222
- 1003268226
- 9781003800330
- 1003800335
- 9781003801733
- 1003801730
- Publisher Number:
- 99995711319
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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