Category:Aizanoi roman bath 2nd century

Between the stadium and the temple precinct stood large, lavishly equipped baths with a colonnaded forecourt dating from the second half of the second century AD. The southeast part of the symmetrical building has been excavated between 1978 and 1981. Numerous remains of the rich marble fittings of the bath’s halls and of the water and heating channels are still to be seen. The actual bath-rooms are located along the central axis of the building. Close by there are several side-rooms, including one big hall with an apse in which a marble statue of the goddess Hygicia was set up. Northeast of the bath building was a big colonnaded forecourt (Palaestra) which was used for physical exercise. North of the palaestra, lying in the fields, are some big slabs belonging to a structure with a round interior but an angular exterior. They perhaps belong to a bigger tomb building.