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Identifier: pompeiiitshist00dyer (find matches)
Title: Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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The plinth or base of the wall is entirely of marble. Theentrance is by the undressing-room. There are four niches(gg), disposed at equal distances, painted red above and bluebelow. In these niches (scholag) were seats for the conve-nience of the bathers. The basin (alveus) is twelve feet teninches in diameter and not much more than a yard deep, and isentirely lined with white marble. Two marble steps facili-tate the descent into it, and at the bottom is a sort of cushion(pulvinus), also of marble, to enable those who bathed to sitdown. The water ran into this bath in a large stream,through a spout or lip of bronze four inches wide, placed inthe wall at the height of three feet seven inches from theedge of the basin. At the bottom is a small outlet for thepurpose of emptying and cleansing it, and in the rim there DESCRIPTION OF BATHS. 163 is a waste pipe to carry off the superfluous water. Thisfrigidarium is remarkable for its preservation and beauty.
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The tepidarium (d), or warm chamber, was so called froma warm, but soft and mild temperature, which prepared the 164 POMPEII. bodies of the bathers for the more intense heat which theywere to undergo in the vapoui- and hot baths ; and, vice

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