Water in Ancient Mediterranean Households

ISBN-13: 9781032213972 / Twarda / 2023 / 296 str.

Opis

This book provides the first detailed study of the water supply of households in antiquity. Chapters explore settings from Classical Greece to the Late Roman Empire across a wide variety of environments, from dry deserts and moderate Mediterranean zones to wet and temperate climates further north.

Spis treści

1.     Water in Ancient Mediterranean Households; 2. Household Water, Environment and Economy in Ancient Piraeus; 3. Social Stratification and Water Sharing on Late-Hellenistic Delos; 4. Surveying Notion’s Residential Water Supply: Cistern Use During Hellenistic-Roman Times; 5. Breaking out from Imagined Household Uniformity: Diverse Rainwater Harvesting Solutions in Republican-Imperial Cosa; 6. Rainwater Collection Strategies in Pompeian Houses;7. Posthumanism, Social Justice and Pollution in the Waters of Roman Volubilis; 8. Reusing Stepped Pools in Roman Palestinian Households;9. The Significance of Household Cisterns at Roman Dura-Europos;10. Water as Social Inequality in Late Roman Britain

O autorze

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.