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Title Latrinae : Roman toilets in the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire / Stefanie Hoss
Published Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (ii, 152 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Series Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; 31
Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; 31.
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 on toilets and toilet-use in the Northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. It is hoped this volume will promote and stimulate further research in this interesting research topic
Notes Previously issued in print: 2017
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Audience Specialized
Notes Articles in English, with one in French
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 2, 2018)
Subject Toilets -- Rome
Toilets -- Europe, Western -- History -- To 1500
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Toilets
Western Europe
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hoss, Stefanie, editor
Archaeopress, publisher.
LC no. 2018487290
ISBN 1784917265
9781784917265
9781784917258
1784917257