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Baths
Baths
Public bath complexes
Tombstone of freedman Tiberius
Claudius Secundus, Rome 1st CE
• ‘Wine, sex and baths
ruin our bodies, but
they are the stuff of
life’
Baths
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Apodyterium
Tepidarium
Caldarium
Frigidarium
Natatio
Palaestra
Specialty rooms- laconicum
destrictarium, food and massage
Baths
Strigil
Hypocaust system(Sergius Orata)
Seneca
st
(1
c. CE) Letters 56.1
• I live right over a public bath. Just imagine
the whole range of voices which can irritate
my ears. When the more muscular types
are exercising and swinging about lead
weights in their hands, and when they are
straining themselves ,or at least pretending
to strain, I hear groans……. But when I
have to put up with an unathletic fellow,
one satisfied with a low-class rub-down, I
hear the slap of a hand pummeling his
shoulders ( the sound varies somewhat,
depending on whether the hand is flat or
cupped). Now, if a ball player comes along
and begins to count his score aloud, I’m
definitely finished. Imagine also a
quarrelsome drunk, or sometimes a thief
caught in the act, or a man who loves to sing
in the bath. And then imagine people
diving into the pool with a great splash of
water.
• Besides these men, whose voices are, if
nothing else, at least natural, imagine the
hair plucker with his shrill and high-pitched
voice, continually shrieking in order to be
noticed; he’s never quiet, except, when he’s
plucking armpits and forcing his customer
to shriek instead of him.
• I could wear myself out just listening to the
variety of shouts among people selling
drinks, sausages, and pastries; each
restaurant or snack bar has its own huckster
with his own recognizable jingle.
Baths at Pompeii ( AD 79)
• Stabian =oldest ( 90-80 BCE –hypocaust
added) undergoing restoration
• Forum ( 80 BCE)– new colony
• Suburban ( undergoing restoration)
• Central ( under construction)
Stabian baths
Stabian Baths ( Palaestra)
Aqueducts
Castellum aquae
Forum Baths
Tepidarium
• 500 lamps found in complex
Brazier
• ( Marcus Nigidius Vacula)
Jupiter and Ganymede
Frigidarium
• Alma Tadema
Caldarium
• labrum
Suburban Baths
Excavated 1985-1987
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No women’s section
4=hot
5=warm
6=cold
7=changing
Apodyterium-sex and boxes
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Grotto
Herculaneum
Forum baths , women’s
apodyterium
Herculaneum
Suburban Baths
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a=entrance
b=vestibule
d= room with view
e=apodyterium/frigidarium
f=tepidarium
g=caldarium
h=heated swimming pool
i=laconicum
Proconsul Balbus
Vestibule
Apodyterium
Caldarium
• labrum
Baths in Rome
Baths of Caracalla
Frigidarium, Baths of Diocletian ( Santa
Maria degli Angeli) 3rd C. AD Rome