Smelling and other sensations that are often considered solely physiological phenomena are in fact deeply influenced by culture and history, and without understanding the ancient sensory landscape, our knowledge of the past inevitably remains limited. This paper explores the olfactory nuisances in one Pompeian city block (IX,3) and its immediate neighbors. I examine the area's stenches by tracing and mapping the sources of smells, focusing on those that in previous scholarship have been considered to render ancient towns foul smelling. The analysis contests the views of malodorous Roman urban space presented in previous studies and suggests that the smellscape of urban Pompeii was not a constant reek but milder and manageable. However, the analysis also reveals that social hierarchies and power relations played a part in Pompeian odor control, and the olfactory landscape was not the same for all inhabitants.

嗅觉和其他常被视为生理现象的感觉，实际上深受文化和历史的影响，如果不了解古代的感官景观，我们对过去的了解不可避免地是有限的。本文探讨了一个庞贝城街区 (IX,3) 及其近邻的嗅觉滋扰。我通过追踪和绘制气味来源来检查该地区的恶臭，重点关注那些在以前的学术研究中被认为会使古镇散发恶臭的气味。该分析质疑了先前研究中提出的恶臭罗马城市空间的观点，并表明庞贝古城的气味景观并非持续不断的恶臭，而是更温和且易于管理。然而，分析还表明，社会等级制度和权力关系在庞贝气味控制中发挥了作用，