Plan of the Old Baths of Pompeii

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Illustration

Jan van der Crabben
by Overbeck
published on 24 November 2011
Plan of the Old Baths of Pompeii Download Full Size Image

Plan of the Old Baths at Pompeii.

Legend


A — atrium
B — apodyterium (room for undressing)
C — frigidarium (cool bath)
D — tepidarium (warm room)
E — caldarium (hot bath)
F — thermal chamber
G — women's tepidarium
H — women's apodyterium
J — women's cold bath
K — the servants' atrium
M — chamber for fornacatores (persons in charge of the fires)

a, a2, a3 — entrances to men's baths
b — entrance to women's baths
c, c2 — entrances to furnace rooms
d — circular furnace
e — passages
f — probably an oecus or exedra
g — portico
h — walls
i — small room
m — small vestibule
q — passage to the furnace room
r — mouth of the furnace
x — water closet (latrina)

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Overbeck. (2011, November 24). Plan of the Old Baths of Pompeii. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/547/plan-of-the-old-baths-of-pompeii/

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Overbeck. "Plan of the Old Baths of Pompeii." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified November 24, 2011. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/547/plan-of-the-old-baths-of-pompeii/.

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