A Romanmiliariumfrom a private bath house in northern Gaul: from water technology to ritual offering
| Autor: | Luc Leconte, Pascal Raymond, Aurélien Lefeuvre, Séverine Hurard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Water boil
010506 paleontology Archeology 060102 archaeology business.industry General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject Water supply 06 humanities and the arts Art 01 natural sciences Archaeology 6. Clean water 0601 history and archaeology business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Antiquity. 90:1562-1575 |
| ISSN: | 1745-1744 0003-598X |
| Popis: | The rare discovery of a well-preserved miliarium—a water boiler—in a rural bath house in Gaul suggests that the technology of water supply had penetrated the remoter parts of the Roman world. Such boilers were frequently recycled for their valuable metal content. This example, by contrast, was buried close to where it once stood—perhaps in connection with the ritual deposit of complete animal carcasses around the bath house. The symbolic associations of the boiler are suggested by decorative elements including the mask of a bearded man, argued to represent Okeanos, a divine personification of the sea. The near-complete state of the boiler also provides new insight into the processes used in its manufacture from lead and copper alloys. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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