Baths at the 'State Agora'. 에베소(Ephesus)

Baths at the 'State Agora'. 에베소(Ephesus). 터키(Turkey)

 

 

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The Roman bathing facility should be located at the site of an earlier, Hellenistic gymnasium. Four bathing rooms at the northern side were partly hewn out of the bedrock. The caldarium (hot room) lying to the west possessed seven niches furnished with bathing pools. To the west & south, colonnades with mosaic floors were adjoined; these served as recreation rooms & lobby halls. Presumably a palaestra (exercise area) exists in the unexcavated terrain to the south, which would have served for physical exercise as well as mental activities.

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<Excavation of the Baths at the 'State Agora' (1927)>

 

<The Baths at the 'State Agora' from the south>

 

<Hypocausts of the caldarium (hot room)>

 

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