Sixty-Six Toilets and Urinals in the Ancient City of Rome: Sanitary, Urbanistic, and Social Agency

Data evento
16 Ottobre 2024

Daily life is the present focus of Mediterranean archaeology. And what is more daily than a visit to the toilet? During this event, Roman toilet specialists Gemma Jansen, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and Richard Neudecker, will present the book they have written about this topic, together with 31 collaborating archaeologists working and living in Rome. In it, the many toilets of Rome are described one by one and analyzed as a group. Some of them have been known for years, others have been excavated only recently and are displayed for the first time. Moreover, the book also touches on general questions of hygiene, water supply and drainage, design and architecture as well as the cultural context of these toilets – their place in the urban environments of ancient Rome. As part of the event, Paolo Liverani, professor of archaeology at the Universita di Firenze, will reflect on the series of which the book forms part.

Susanna de Beer, discorso di benvenuto

Paolo Liverani, Perché sono importanti i BABESCH Supplements

Gemma Jansen, Sixty-Six Toilets and Urinals of Ancient Rome

In the spotlight: The Gutters of the Colosseum, Largest Roman Urinal

Richard Neudecker, Briciole per un’antropologia della toletta

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Words of Thanks

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