Ancient Water Supply and Management Systems in the Western Mediterranean

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Edited by María del Mar Castro García Edited by Jesús Acero Pérez Edited by Davide Gangale Risoleo Edited by Catarina Felício

Book cover: Ancient Water Supply and Management Systems in the Western Mediterranean

Extent: 226 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Series: Archaeopress Roman Archaeology

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2025)

ISBN: 9781805830924

7.99 x 10.87 inches

Price: $70.00

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This volume examines water management in Western Mediterranean settlements from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity. It explores infrastructures like aqueducts, wells, cisterns, and drainage systems, highlighting their role in survival, crafts, religion, and landscape transformation.


This volume examines water management in Western Mediterranean settlements from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity. It explores infrastructures like aqueducts, wells, cisterns, and drainage systems, highlighting their role in survival, crafts, religion, and landscape transformation.

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 TaurinorumDavide 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

  • Edited by María del Mar Castro García
  • Edited by Jesús Acero Pérez
  • Edited by Davide Gangale Risoleo
  • Edited by Catarina Felício