Ancient Roman baths

alt=Photograph of the Baths showing a rectangular area of greenish water surrounded by yellow stone buildings with pillars. In the background is the tower of the abbey.|thumb|upright=1.35|Roman Baths (Bath)|Roman public baths in Bath, England. The entire structure above the level of the pillar bases is a later reconstruction. thumb|Bulla Regia, inside the thermal baths

thumb|300px|right|Hypocaust under the floor in a Roman villa in Vieux-la-Romaine, near [[Caen, France]]

thumb|right|250px| The circular frigidarium, Roman Baths (Bath), England A frigidarium is one of the three main bath chambers of a Roman bath or thermae, namely the cold room. It often contains a swimming pool.

right|thumb|230px|Caldarium from the Roman baths at Bath, Somerset|Bath, England. The floor has been removed to reveal the empty space where the hot air flowed through to heat the floor.

thumb|Tepidarium in the Forum Thermae at Pompeii thumb|Tepidarium (painting)|Tepidarium by [[Théodore Chassériau, 1853]] thumb|The Tepidarium by [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1881]] The tepidarium was the warm (tepidus) bathroom of the Roman baths heated by a hypocaust or underfloor heating system. The speciality of a tepidarium is the pleasant feeling of constant radiant heat, which directly affects the human body from the walls and floor.

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thumb|260px|Apodyterium at Herculaneum#Central Thermae|Central Thermae (Herculaneum) – men's sector In ancient Rome, the apodyterium (from , "undressing room") was the primary entry in the public baths, composed of a large changing room with cubicles or shelves where citizens could store clothing and other belongings while bathing.

Roman baths in Trier, Germany

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In architecture, a sudatorium is a vaulted sweating-room (sudor, "sweat") or steam bath (Latin: sudationes, steam) of the Roman baths or thermae. The Roman architectural writer Vitruvius (v. 2) refers to it as concamerata sudatio. It is similar to a laconicum, or dry heat bath, with the addition of water to produce steam.

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thumb|right|Laconicum at Chedworth Roman Villa, England The laconicum (i.e. Spartan, sc. balneum, "bath") was the dry sweating room of the Roman thermae, sometimes contiguous to the caldarium or hot room. The name was given to it (Laconia: Sparta) since it was the only form of warm bath that the Spartans admitted. The laconicum was usually a circular room with niches in the axes of the diagonals and was covered by a conical roof with a circular opening at the top, according to Vitruvius (v. 10), from which a brazen shield is suspended by chains, capable of being so lowered and raised as to reg

ancient Roman thermae in Carthage, Tunisia

thumb|right|300px|A nymph statue from Allianoi, which became a symbol for protestors against the submergence of Allianoi under the waters of the [[Yortanlı Dam.]]

thumb|Remains of the thermae in Glanum, on the southern outskirts of [[Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France]] Suspensura is the architectural term given by Vitruvius to piers of square bricks (about 20 cm × 20 cm) that supported a suspended floor of a Roman bath covering a hypocaust cavity through which hot air would flow.

ancient Roman thermae in Dougga, Tunisia

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thumb|400px|Diagram of the operation of a praefurnium and heat distribution through hypocaust and tubuli of a Roman bath In Ancient Rome, the praefurnium designated the room and the furnace that ensured the heating of the hot or warm premises of the thermae. == Description == The praefurnium contains the wood-fired furnaces of the Roman baths and is generally placed at a lower level of the premises to be heated, in order to facilitate the diffusion of heat. The water is heated in copper or bronze tanks above the furnace combustion chamber. There may be one single or several heating rooms, depe

Roman baths in Trier, Germany

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ancient Roman thermae in Dougga, Tunisia

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imperial Roman era baths in Milan