What is it about?
This study begins by examining the archaeological and documentary evidence for lavatories (toilets) and foul-water drains in ancient Mesopotamian dwelling houses. It goes on to investigate the use, etymology and history of the Akkadian word asurrû: in the Old Babylonian period it served mainly as a term for a kind of foul-water drain or “sewer” but later shed that meaning.
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Why is it important?
There is no other modern synthesis of the archaeological and documentary evidence for Babylonian lavatories and sewers.
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This page is a summary of: ON BABYLONIAN LAVATORIES AND SEWERS, Iraq, December 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/irq.2015.9.
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