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
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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o both divisions liesthe entrance-hall of the mens baths (3). After it follows thebath-room for men (5), separated from that for women by a spacecontaining a staircase. The room adjoining it (6) was intendedfor social intercourse, after it follows the swimming-bath (natatio)of the men (7), surrounded by a colonnade. Into this peristyliumopen a narrow apartment (8), in which a mosaic floor has been 400 THERMS OF POMPEII. discovered, and a covered passage (crypta, 10). The street (11)runs parallel with the latter : on the opposite side of the building-was also a street, while in front of it seems to have been an opensquare. More complicated in design and larger in size are the thermseexcavated at Pompeii in 1824 (see plan, Fig, 420). Like thehouse of Pansa (Fig. 386), they are surrounded by a number ofshops and lodging-houses, which, however, are unconnected withthe bathing-establishment. The whole block of houses (insula)forms an irregular square bordered on all sides by streets. Here,
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Fig. 420. also, the baths of women and men are separate, and have differententrances. The former comprise the rooms K L M N 0 P, theentrance being near 0 ; the latter, the rooms B D E G H I.Four entrances lead into them from the street on three differentsides (AAA). The heating-apparatus (F) is common to bothdivisions, and lies between them. The remainder of the area(marked in our plan Q, or left blank) is occupied by shops andprivate lodgings belonging to them. 0, as we mentioned before, THERMAi OF POMPEII. 401 marks the entrance to the womens bath in a projection of thewall. To the left of it lies a small apartment furnished withbenches, undoubtedly a sort of waiting-room. The larger roomL is generally believed to be an apodyterium ; it also is fitted upwith stone benches. In the small alcove-like part of it nearestthe entrance we recognise the frigidarium, with the piscinabelonging to it, to which latter descend steps (see Plan). Fromthe apodyterium one enters the tepidarium (31),

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