Ostia antica : entrepôts d’Ostie et de Portus. Les grandi horrea à Ostie

Bukowiecki, Evelyne; Monteix, Nicolas; Rousse, Corinne

doi:10.3406/mefr.2008.10432

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“…2 and 3). Lead fistulae would not be expected at Ostia in this period, since Ostia relied on wells for its water supply until the first half of the first century AD (33). The water of the Aqua Appia and Anio Vetus aqueducts at Rome, built in the late fourth century and early third century BC, respectively, were distributed by a leadfree system of masonry channels or terracotta or wooden pipes, of which only few have been found.…”

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“…The 14 C age-depth model receives some confirmation from scattered mentions in textual sources. The first dated stamps on lead pipes do not appear at Rome until 11 BC (10) and even later at Ostia (AD 37-41) (33)(34)(35). Fistulae seem to have been in use in water systems at the beginning of the first century BC in Rome (36), however, and by the late second century BC at nearby Alatri (10).…”

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Rome’s urban history inferred from Pb-contaminated waters trapped in its ancient harbor basins

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Keenan‐Jones

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Heavy metals from urban runoff preserved in sedimentary deposits record long-term economic and industrial development via the expansion and contraction of a city's infrastructure. Lead concentrations and isotopic compositions measured in the sediments of the harbor of Ostia-Rome's first harbor-show that lead pipes used in the water supply networks of Rome and Ostia were the only source of radiogenic Pb, which, in geologically young central Italy, is the hallmark of urban pollution. High-resolution geochemical, isotopic, and C analyses of a sedimentary core from Ostia harbor have allowed us to date the commissioning of Rome's lead pipe water distribution system to around the second century BC, considerably later than Rome's first aqueduct built in the late fourth century BC. Even more significantly, the isotopic record of Pb pollution proves to be an unparalleled proxy for tracking the urban development of ancient Rome over more than a millennium, providing a semiquantitative record of the water system's initial expansion, its later neglect, probably during the civil wars of the first century BC, and its peaking in extent during the relative stability of the early high Imperial period. This core record fills the gap in the system's history before the appearance of more detailed literary and inscriptional evidence from the late first century BC onward. It also preserves evidence of the changes in the dynamics of the Tiber River that accompanied the construction of Rome's artificial port,, during the first and second centuries AD.

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Rome’s urban history inferred from Pb-contaminated waters trapped in its ancient harbor basins

Delile

Keenan‐Jones

Blichert‐Toft

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Así, estos horrea (Rickman, 1971;Arce y Goffaux, 2011;Salido, 2013a;Salido y Neira, 2014;Bukowiecki et al, 2016) E. Martelli, se propone que las estrechas zonas de acceso de los almacenes, las rampas y las escaleras estaban diseñadas para que los trabajadores pudieran acceder con la mercancía en la espalda sin dificultades; en cambio, los carros no cabrían en estas estructuras (Martelli, 2013: 10) (fig. 4).…”

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