Water for the city, fountains for the people: monumental fountains in the Roman East ; an archaeological study of water management
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
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1
Back to Basics: Towards a Functional Definition of Roman Monumental
1
Fountains
I. A brief historiography of the Roman monumental fountain
1
a. The time of artistic and architectural curiosity
2
b. Early scientific studies of monumental fountains: an interest for etymology and
4
architectural typology
с
The concern for architectural typology and terminological criticism
7
d. Regional and chronological gazetteers: an interest for diachronic architectural
9
developments
e. The recent awareness for functionality and context
10
f. The contribution of the field of the aqueduct studies
11
II. The study of Roman monumental fountains: remaining problems and
12
unexplored aspects
III. An attempt of definition: nymphaeum vs. monumental fountain?
14
a. Is the word nymphaeum suitable to define Roman Imperial monumental fountains?
14
b. Evaluation of ancient and modern terminology: a good base for a definition?
24
IV. Towards an architectural and functional definition of monumental fountains
27
a. The validity of architectural typology
27
b. Towards a functional definition of the Roman monumental fountain
28
V. Brief evaluation of the available documentation
31
2
A Brief Overview of Fountain Architecture in the Greek and Roman East
35
I. Archaic and Classical periods
35
a. Plainly designed spring basins and captures
35
b. Plainly designed isolated uncovered fountains
36
с
Stoa-type fountain-house
37
II. Hellenistic period
39
III. Roman Imperial period
41
a. Curved monumental fountain
41
b. Façade-nymphaeum
43
c.
Circular fountain
45
3
Fountains and Urban Water Networks
47
I. The Roman aqueduct: utilitarian revolution or superfluous luxury?
49
a. Status, perception and function of Roman aqueducts: some recent reappraisals
49
b. Modern research trends in the study of aqueducts
51
Water for the City, Fountains for the People
II. Unified programs of waterworks? The chronological affiliation between
52
monumental fountains and aqueducts
a. Some methodological issues
52
b. Building programs involving the joint construction of an aqueduct and a monumental
53
fountain
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Newly built monumental fountains, public baths and aqueducts as a unified building
55
program
d. Integration of monumental fountains into pre-existing distribution networks
57
e. The importance of reflecting on the chronological relationship between fountains and
58
aqueducts
III. The spatial and functional affiliation between aqueducts and monumental
60
fountains
a. Urban water supply systems in the Roman period: an increase in complexity and
61
hierarchy?
b. The application of the system approach to water supply systems
63
с
The spatial and functional affiliation between monumental fountains and aqueducts:
68
definition and models
IV. The chronological and spatial affiliation between aqueducts and monumental
80
fountains: concluding remarks
a. Technological
/
functional
/
utilitarian aspects
80
b. Status and perception
82
V. East and West
83
a. Early public fountains in the Roman West
83
b. A
Roman fountain culture in Asia Minor? The re-nucleation of water drawing points
86
с
The Levant: a smarter distribution of water resources?
90
d. Greece: a greater reliance on local traditions?
91
VI. Monumental fountains and aqueducts: concluding remarks
92
4
Flowing Waters: The Hydraulic Apparatus of Monumental Fountains
93
I. The size of monumental fountains: a meaningful criterion for evaluating their
94
functional spectrum?
II. The hydraulic apparatus: evidence for water management, shortage and surplus
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a. The means of supply
98
b. Reservoirs and basins: buffers against unsteady water supplies?
103
с
Parapets, spouts and water drawing
118
d. Drainage facilities, water evacuation and recycling
130
e. Superfluous elements of the hydraulic apparatus: cascades, optical effects and
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spouting statues
III. In a diachronic perspective: alterations of the hydraulic apparatus
141
a. Modifications that did not drastically affect the function as public fountain
142
b. Extensive modifications leading to drastic functional changes
149
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Hydraulic Impact and Water Quality
155
I. Spatial and functional affiliation
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hydraulic apparatus: first insights on the
155
function and status of monumental fountains in urban distribution networks
a. Theoretical reflections on the spatial and functional affiliation between monumental
155
fountains and aqueducts
viii
Contents
b.
Theoretical reflections on the hydraulic apparatus
157
II. The rise and fall of water: on the rate of flow and hydraulic impact
159
a. Theoretical modelling
159
b. Examination of the archaeological material
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Asia Minor and mainland Greece
160
с
Examination of the archaeological material
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the Levant
164
d. Concluding remarks on the rate of flow
165
III. The hydraulic impact of monumental fountains: a comparison with water
167
management in public baths
a. Water provisioning
167
b. Water utilization
168
с
Discard
169
d. The different periodicity of water management in public baths
169
e. Comparison between baths and monumental fountains
170
IV. A Levantine exception?
172
V. On hygiene and water quality
176
a. Ancient criteria of hygiene and water quality
176
b. Archaeological evidence: hydraulic apparatus and water quality
177
с
Concluding remarks: the place of public fountains in the qualitative offer of water in
180
antique cities
VI. Some final remarks on sources and methodology
182
Water in the City: The Functional Geography of Roman Monumental
185
Fountains
I. The urban insertion of monumental fountains: general trends
185
a. Peculiar public and semi-public contexts: sanctuaries, baths, theatres and aqueducts
186
b. Streets and
agoras:
the favourite location of fountain commissioners?
189
с
Interpretation of the material evidence and concluding remarks
203
II. The preferential location of monumental fountains: some reflections
205
a. The spatial distribution of pre-Roman public fountains
205
b. The functional interplay between monumental fountains and public spaces
208
Monumental Fountains in Late Antiquity: A New Water Culture in
215
Public Spaces?
I. Functional modifications and their meaning for water management at the scale
216
of the city
a. Examination of the archaeological evidence: structural modifications of fountains
216
b. The issue of water shortage vs. new strategies of water management in Late Antiquity
218
II. Newly built fountains in Late Antiquity: nymphaea vs. fountain-houses?
224
a. Water basins and sheltered fountain-houses: a new architectural tradition?
224
b. The twilight of monumental fountains?
229
III. Maintenance, restoration and abandonment: the fate of High Imperial
231
monumental fountains
IV. Concluding remarks: a new fountain culture in Late Antiquity?
235
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Water for the City, Fountains for the People
8
Utility vs. Representation? Recentering the Functional Spectrum of Ro-
237
man Monumental Fountains
I. The representative dimensions of Roman monumental fountains
237
a. An ideal combination of concrete and abstract functions
237
b. Nature and extent of the representative function of monumental fountains
239
II. Monumental fountains as a sign of technical progress?
252
a. Nucleated drawing point
/
spatial flexibility
254
b. The hydraulic apparatus: running water, buffer capacity, rate of flow and parapets
254
с
Water quality
255
III. Concluding remarks: bridging the gap between utility and representation
256
Catalogue
259
Bibliography
281
Index
305
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