Bathrooms and Toilets in Babylon-Merkes: Speculation or Reality?
Abstrak
This paper examines the rooms with drainage facilities of the Neo-Babylonian dwellings in Babylon-Merkes, which Reuther interprets as bathrooms or toilets in his excavation report. This interpretation will be reappraised by asking the following questions: is it possible to understand Neo-Babylonian attitudes to hygiene in dwellings in Babylon-Merkes, to identify specific rooms in which measures were undertaken influenced by such attitudes, and to link such precautions to a specific social class? If not, can another interpretation for drained rooms be proposed relying on the Akkadian words used for individual rooms and features? The final aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the potential functions of drainage systems in residential areas.
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Bielefeld, Svende
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- 2024
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- 10.30687/KASKAL/5235-1939/2024/01/013
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