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Identifier: lifeofgreeksroma00guhl (find matches)
Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
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baths (lavatio calda) ; several steps led up to this tub ortank, which is connected with the wall itself. The oppositewestern side, ending in a semicircular niche, contains a detachedround labrum, for cold ablutions, about eight inches deep andraised above the ground by one metre; a bronze pipe at thebottom of it admitted the water. An inscription in bronze let 101son the border of the tub says, that it had been purchased D D THERMAE OF POMPEII. by decree of the decuriones for the sum of 5,250 sestertii(about £38). A door connects the caldarium with the tepidarium (D),smaller in size, but more richly decorated with sculptures andpaintings: a bronze hearth and three benches of the samematerial have been discovered in this elegant and comfortableapartment (Fig. 421). Inscriptions on the seats of the benchesname M. Nigidius Yaccula as the donor. Parallel with thetepidarium, and connected with it by means of a door, we seeanother slightly larger room (B). It also has a barrel-vault, but
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Fig. 421. is decorated less richly than the tepidarium. It served as apody-terium, and was surrounded by stone benches with a low step infront of them. On one of the narrow sides of this room lies asmall chamber (A) belonging to the keeper of the bathersclothes (capsarius, from capsa, i.e. cupboard where valuables arekept). On the opposite side the apodyterium is adjoined by around room (rotatio, G), covered with a cupola, in whichroom a round marble basin served for cold baths, and which maytherefore be described as frigidarium. A small aperture in theconical ceiling admitted the light, while the tepidarium was THE NEW THERMAL AT POM PEN. 403 lighted by means of a window closed with one pane of groundglass. In accordance with its destination, the tepidarium wasconnected with the street (A) by means of a narrow corridor. Inthe wall opposite the opening of this corridor, by the side of theentrance to the frigidarium, lies the door of another narrowcorridor leading to an open court (H).

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