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Tepidarium in the Forum Thermae at Pompeii. 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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The ceiling of the men's tepidarium featured similar stuccowork. [18] The men's frigidarium is a round room with a dome, at the center of which is an oculus which allows light to enter the room. The cold-water basin, which is lined in white marble, is edged by a narrow marble floor. The walls are inset with niches containing fountains.
This would often be the first room somebody visiting the baths would enter. Next, the bather progressed into the tepidarium (warm room), then into the caldarium (hot room) for a steam, and finally into the frigidarium (cold room) with its tank of cold water. The caldarium, heated by a brazier underneath the hollow floor, contained cold-water ...
The baths consisted of a central frigidarium (cold room) measuring 58 m × 24 m (190 ft × 79 ft) under three groin vaults 32.9 m (108 ft) high, a double pool tepidarium (medium), and a circular caldarium (hot room) 35 m (115 ft) in diameter, as well as two palaestras (gyms where wrestling and boxing were practiced).
[C 8] There is a staircase to the north of the room, close to the basin drainage system, [B 9] providing access to the tepidarium. [B 9] The room east of the frigidarium is the access area to the baths and leads to two heated rooms. [B 6] The tepidarium measures 6.9 meters by 3.8 meters [B 5] and is smaller than the other rooms. Its size ...
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Model of Thermes de Cluny showing the major elements of the baths. In the center of the picture is the frigidarium; to the left is the tepidarium; to the fore of the tepidarium is the caldarium. S. Michel bd forms the left boundary of the picture, S. Germain bd forms the top boundary.