Finally, just the resource I needed to push me over the edge into writing a short thread on something that's been bothering me. How much poop was generated per diem in early imperial Rome?

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1454612616039387139

This is what's claimed in Alex Scobie's "Slums, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Roman World" (1986): that people poop about 50g per day, resulting in ~40-50,0000 kg of poop per day in ancient Rome.

Let’s draw out the whole sordid tale of how this 13thC BCE papyrus came to be in the British Museum:

https://twitter.com/britishmuseum/status/1262050472418062336

The British Museum webpage says that for provenance, we should see Pestman, ‘Who Were the Owners, in the "Community of Workmen", of the Chester Beatty Papyri?’, 1982. Luckily this is online! (p.155-172) nino-leiden.nl/publication/gl…

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this is completely incorrect, just FYI seems like if your whole thing is "gleaning wisdom from antiquity" you should maybe know a single fucking thing about it

Interesting numbers on the size of large private libraries in antiquity:

- Serenus Sammonicus: 62,000 papyrus rolls
- Epaphroditus: 30,000 rolls
- Pamphilius of Caesarea: 30,000 rolls

In comparison, the Serapaeum of Alexandria (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapeum_…) contained 42,800 rolls All numbers from Christian Jacob’s “The Web of Athenaeus”, which cites the original sources: chs.harvard.edu/book/jacob-chr…