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The latrine, one of the best preserved in Ostia, was built inside two shops of the Hadrianic period (AD 117-138).<\/p>\n

Its current appearance dates to the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0century AD, as is evident from the presence of reused marble slabs, including some with inscriptions, from earlier abandoned buildings.<\/p>\n

It preserves a row of twenty marble seats with holes at the centre running around three sides; beneath was a channel along which the water drained away.<\/p>\n

On the fourth side, the room had a wash basin set against a pillar separating the two entrances: these had revolving doors, as we know from the presence of holes in the marble thresholds that served to hold them in place.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tReconstruction showing how the latrine was used (A. Pascolini)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tAxonometric view of the latrine (A. Pascolini)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latrine, one of the best preserved in Ostia, was built inside two shops of the Hadrianic period (AD 117-138). Its current appearance dates to the 4th\u00a0century AD, as is evident from the presence of reused marble slabs, including some with inscriptions, from earlier abandoned buildings. It preserves a row of twenty marble seats with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6512,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6595\/revisions\/6596"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}