From Routine to Ritual: Social and Spatial Consumption of Water in Roman Domestic Context, Sampling Pompeii, Ephesus and Zeugma

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While access to water and its use in both public and private spheres is a historical phenomenon that we can trace in earlier cultures, it was Roman engineers who brought water to cities and houses and made running water a comfort of daily life more than any other culture in the ancient world. Romans built impressive aqueducts, water channels, public fountains, and baths and made water management and engineering one of the central aspects of their empire. The consumption and management of water in the Roman culture is better understood in sites that are rich in archaeological material and architectural remains, such as the Campanian cities, for which there is evidence in both urban and domestic contexts. The aim of this study is to examine the ways in which water was utilized as an operative and transformative element in the social construction of a private setting, that is, how water was associated with the spatial layout, consumed as both a functional and symbolic element in the performance of routines and rituals in reference to case-studies. The discussion traces information in a chronological framework to organize the key points of the argument. The first part, in this regard, makes a brief presentation of the public and private use of water in the Greek culture that sets the framework and the argument themes, and which also serves to highlight the cultural continuities and changes concerning water use in the Roman period. In this respect, it structures both a brief historical survey and a thematic insight to argue how and in which ways water was a culturally privileged item of consumption and hence was utilized as an agent of spatial design and social use in Roman domestic architecture.

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Roman House, Anatolia, Water Consumption, Ritual, Space

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N. Başar, “From Routine to Ritual: Social and Spatial Consumption of Water in Roman Domestic Context, Sampling Pompeii, Ephesus and Zeugma,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2022.