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Identifier: lifeofgreeksroma00guhl (find matches)
Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
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ehot bath, is still recognisable. The same arrangements, although increased in number and THERMJE OF VELEIA. 399 varied in form, we meet with in the thermae proper, or publicbaths; as the simplest specimen of such we quote the thermaeof Yeleia. Veleia, or Yelleia, was built in the first century ofthe Christian era by the Veleiates, a Ligurian tribe dwellingpreviously in villages in the country traversed by the Yia JEmilia,not far from the modern Piacenza. Under one of the successors ofConstantine the town was buried by the fall of a mountain, andall knowledge of it was lost till 1747, when the discovery of thelargest existing bronze inscription, the so-called tabula alimentariaof Trajan, near the village of Macinisso, indicated the existenceof a Roman settlement. In 1760, by command of Don Philipof Parma, systematic excavations were begun, which, after fiveyears, resulted in the discovery of a moderate provincial town ofthe first centuries of the Empire. Fig. 419 shows the plan of the
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Fig. 419. partly destroyed thermae of Yeleia according to the design of thearchitect Antolini. The facade (1 to 12) contains severalentrances. That lying on the extreme right (1) leads into the bathsfor women, consisting of a sort of entrance-hall (2) and of a largerapartment for hot baths (4). The smaller room lying between thetwo may have contained the heating apparatus (hypocaustum).On the other side of the vestibule common to both divisions liesthe entrance-hall of the mens baths (3). After it follows thebath-room for men (5), separated from that for women by a spacecontaining a staircase. The room adjoining it (6) was intendedfor social intercourse, after it follows the swimming-bath (natatio)of the men (7), surrounded by a colonnade. Into this peristyliumopen a narrow apartment (8), in which a mosaic floor has been 400 THERMS OF POMPEII. discovered, and a covered passage (crypta, 10). The street (11)runs parallel with the latter : on the opposite side of the building-was also a

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