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Detritus, disease and death in the city - Xavier Dupré Raventós y Josep-Anton Remolà, SORDES URBIS. LA ELIMINACIÓN DE RESIDUOS EN LA CIUDAD ROMANA. ACTAS DE LA REUNIÓN DE ROME (15-16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1996) (Bibliotheca Italica: Monografías de la Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma n° 24; L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2000). Pp. xv + 150, 38 figs. ISBN 88-8265-082-0. - Valerie M. Hope and Eireann Marshall (edd.), DEATH AND DISEASE IN THE ANCIENT CITY (Routledge, London 2000). Pp. xii + 194. ISBN 0-415-21427-0. £45.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2015

Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson*
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Institute of Archaeology, Oxford
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 15 , 2002 , pp. 479 - 484
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1 The starting point is Scobie's, A. classic “Slums, sanitation and mortality in the Roman world,” Klio 68 (1986) 399–433 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. More recently, see Wilson, A. I., “Drainage and sanitation,” in Wikander, Ö. (ed.), Handbook of ancient water technology (Leiden 2000) 151–79, with bibliographyGoogle Scholar.

2 Cf. the letting of a contract for the operation of an urban water-supply implied in P. Lond. 1177.

3 On the Pisa ships see Bruni, S., Le navi antiche di Pisa: ad un anno dall'inizio delle ricerche/The ancient ships of Pisa: after a year of work (Firenze 2000)Google Scholar.

4 Published by Pomey, P., “Les épaves grecques et romaines de la place Jules-Verne à Marseille,” CRAI 1995, 459–84Google Scholar.

5 There are some errors in the Greek and Latin quotations in this paper: on 80, for read ἀσάρωτος; for captis infuscans read capitis infuscans; on 91, for υὴ read μὴ.

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7 E.g., the Maison de Dionysos et des Quatre Saisons in the NE quarter at Volubilis: Étierme, R., “Maisons et hydraulique dans le quartier nord-est à Volubilis,” PubServAntMaroc 10 (1954) 25-211, at p. 65 Google Scholar.

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