Latrinae: Roman Toilets in the Northwestern Provinces of the Roman Empire
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Latrinae: Roman Toilets in the Northwestern Provinces of the Roman Empire

  1. 154 pages
  2. English
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Latrinae: Roman Toilets in the Northwestern Provinces of the Roman Empire

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Latrinae: Roman Toilets in the Northwestern Provinces of the Roman Empire' presents examples of Roman toilets from a wide area in northwestern Europe comprising Austria, Belgium, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. Seven papers consider 'typically Roman' stone channel toilets, while five papers discuss the actually much more common wooden toilets of the cesspit type. Some studies concentrate on a single installation, others present a number of installations in their architectural surroundings. In addition, Roman chamber pots, which could be used either solo or in a toilet chair, are presented in two papers. A further paper on stercus, usually connected to latrine duty in the Roman army, questions this interpretation and offers a different meaning of the word. This book is the first collection on Roman toilets of the northwestern provinces, and gives a good overview of the possibilities for human waste removal in Roman times. The volume provides a fascinating introduction to this under-researched group of Roman installations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Frontispiece
  6. Introduction
  7. Sewers or cesspits? Modern assumptions and Roman preferences
  8. The latrine at the Roman fort on the Antonine Wall at Bearsden
  9. Flushed with success – a Roman flushing installation
  10. The latrines of Roman Aachen
  11. An outhouse in the garden? –
  12. A bath with public toilets in the vicus of Bonn
  13. The Roman public toilet of Rottenburg am Neckar
  14. Latrines connected to bathhouses in Germania inferior –
  15. Roman toilets in Nijmegen, Oppidum Batavorum
  16. Arlon, apport des découvertes récentes dans le vicus
  17. A Roman latrine near St. Kolumba in Cologne and its remarkable contents
  18. Latrine pits in the Roman vicus of Vitudurum / Oberwintherthur (Switzerland)
  19. A Roman cesspit from the mid-2nd century with lead price tags
  20. Roman chamber pots
  21. A Roman ‘Toilet bowl’ from Speicher
  22. The meaning of stercus in Roman military papyri –