Ancient Water Supply and Management Systems in the Western Mediterranean

Contents

Introduction. Water Management in Roman Times: Continuity and Variability in Archaeological Studies – María del Mar Castro García

Water Usage at Mirobriga (Castelo Velho de Santiago do Cacém, Portugal). An Overview of the Structures of Water Supply and Distribution – Catarina Felício

Water Management in Calduba (Sierra Aznar, Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz): A Terraced System for the Recreation of a Locus Amoenus? – Isabel Rondán-Sevilla, José Antonio Calvillo Ardila and Lázaro G. Lagóstena Barrios

Erogationes in the San Lázaro Aqueduct, Mérida? The ‘House of the Amphitheatre’ Example – Macarena Bustamante-Álvarez, Elena H. Sánchez López and Ana M. Bejarano Osorio

Monumental Fountains with Staircases at the End of the Iron Age in Southern Gaul – Sandrine Agusta-Boularot, Marc Bouiron, Grégory Vacassy and Ghislain Vincent

Water Management in a Roman Settlement at the Foot of the Alps: The Waterworks of Augusta Taurinorum – Davide Gangale Risoleo and Stefania Ratto

Water and the City of Veii: A Link between Mythology, Religion, Archaeology, and History – Ugo Fusco

The Underground Structures of the Theatre in Ostia: A Preliminary Study on the Sewerage System – Katerina Gottardo

The Villa Under the Lakes. Water Management of Nero’s Villa in Subiaco, Rome – Fabiana Tozzi

Late Antique Transformations in Water Provision, Management and Distribution in the Thermal Bath Archaeological Park of Baiae (Bacoli, Naples) – Gioconda Di Luca

Analysing the Water Supply to Roman Artisanal and Commercial Facilities: Pompeii as a Case Study – Elena H. Sánchez López

Rainwater Collection and Storage in the Pompeian House: Slaves at Work – Gemma Jansen

Abellinum and its Water Distribution System: New Evidence for a Wider Comprehension of the Hydraulic Infrastructures – Marina Covolan and Daniela Musmeci

‘Domesticating Water’: Some Conclusions on Water Infrastructure in the Ancient World – Jesús Acero Pérez

About the Author

María del Mar Castro García, PhD at the University of Cádiz, is a Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Granada. Her research interests include Roman water management, landscape archaeology, GIS analysis, and remote sensing.

Jesús Acero Pérez, PhD in History at the University of Extremadura, has been a postdoctoral researcher, first at the Centre for Archaeology of the University of Lisbon (UNIARQ) and, since 2021, at the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Seville. His scientific interests focus on urban planning, architecture, hydraulic engineering and waste management in Roman and Late Antiquity.

Davide Gangale Risoleo is an archaeological officer for the Ministry of Culture, working in the ABAP Superintendency for the provinces of Catanzaro and Crotone. He holds a PhD in Ancient Sciences and Archaeology from the University of Pisa and has been a research fellow at the University of Calabria. His research interests focus on the tradition of ancient topographical studies, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the relationship between water and urbanism.

Catarina Felício, Archaeologist and Pre-Doctoral Researcher at CHAM - Centre for the Humanities/NOVA FCSH, works on Roman Architecture and Construction, focusing mainly on bath buildings, hydraulic architecture and sanitation.