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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.
At one end of the men's tepidarium was a basin, which August Mau reckoned was a "moderately cold bath" for "those who in the winter shrank from using the frigidarium". [20] Both hot rooms contained a labrum, a large, elevated, shallow basin filled with lukewarm water. Only the base of the labrum remains in the men's hot room, but the women's is ...
The caldarium, heated by a brazier underneath the hollow floor, contained cold-water basins which the bather could use for cooling. After taking this series of sweat and/or immersion baths, the bather returned to the cooler tepidarium for a massage with oils and final scraping with metal implements called strigils.
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The northeastern end of the bath building contained a natatio or swimming pool. [17] The caldarium had seven pools, the frigidarium four, the tepidarium two. Next to the caldarium were saunas . [3]: 28 The central room was the frigidarium, whose high roof was supported by eight giant columns made from Egyptian granite. Walls and floor were made ...
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