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cutaway model of bath model of bath--dressing room model of bath--tepidarium and frigidarium model of bath--furnace and caldarium cutaway model of bath complex in villa
model of bath model of bath model of bath model of bath model of bath
Saalburg Museum Saalburg Museum Saalburg Museum Saalburg Museum Cirencester Museum

cutaway model of a small bath in Roman house in Billingsgate stucco deco and niches in men's dressing room cold plunge and niches in women's dressing room graffito of ship in women's dressing room palaestra
model of bath dressing room dressing room graffito palaestra
Museum of London Stabian Baths, Pompeii Stabian Baths, Pompeii Stabian Baths, Pompeii Stabian Baths, Pompeii

portico of palaestra mosaic of wrestlers mosaic of female ball players mosaic of female working with weights mosaic of female athletes receiving awards
portico wrestlers female athletes female athletes female athletes
Stabian Baths, Pompeii Tunis, Bardo Museum Piazza Armerina, 4th century CE Piazza Armerina, 4th century CE Piazza Armerina, 4th century CE

caldarium with labrum labrum cold plunge in frigidarium model of baths of Trajan drawing of hypocaust
caldarium labrum cold pool model of baths of Trajan hypocaust
Forum Baths, Pompeii Forum Baths, Pompeii Forum Baths, Pompeii plastico of Rome, EUR Wroxeter Museum

caldarium with labrum swimming pool exercise grounds reconstruction drawing of dressing room, Forum Baths hypocaust with skeleton of dog
caldarium swimming pool palaestra drawing of dressing room hypocaust
Forum Baths, Pompeii Stabian Baths, Pompeii Stabian Baths, Pompeii by Fratelli Niccolini Schwarzenacker, Open Air Museum

latrine showing channel for "flushing" latrine showing front water channel latrine with mosaic floor (with sponge sticks added)
latrine latrine latrine
Ephesus Dougga Piazza Armerina, 4th century CE

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revised June, 2011
Barbara F. McManus