Sewer Pipe

Many of the homes and the palace at Nuzi were quite spacious and luxurious, and were probably multi-storied. Among the rooms discovered in the palace was a toilet (Room L25). The floor of the room and the bases of the walls were built of baked bricks to minimize water damage and mud. Underground plumbing constructed from ceramic pipe segments like this one led from the bathrooms and toilets of many Nuzi houses to the streets. The sewers that ran under the streets did not extend beyond the edge of the settlement; they simply emptied onto the sides of the mound.