Building the social : A query into the social impact of the Pompeian water supply
This study explores the importance of the means of ensuring watersupply in the formation of the architectural profile and basic socialorganization of Pompeii. It sees the city’s domestic water supply, forover two centuries ensured through rainwater-harvesting areas, basinsand cisterns situated mainly in and below the many atria, as a stabilizingfactor of both cityscape and household. Through the iThis study explores the importance of the means of ensuring watersupply in the formation of the architectural profile and basic socialorganization of Pompeii. It sees the city’s domestic water supply, forover two centuries ensured through rainwater-harvesting areas, ba-sins and cisterns situated mainly in and below the many atria, as a sta-bilizing factor of both cityscape and household. Through t