Sources for Roman Baths

Books: (see also General Reference Works)

• Fagan, Garrett G. Bathing in Public in the Roman World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
• Yegül, Fikret. Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.

External Links:

• Roman Ball Games (Jan Kowalski, with assistance from Penn State History Department)
• Ancient Baths Resource Site (Garrett G. Fagan), includes a glossary of bath-related terms
• Drawing of Hypocaust and Furnace (Waterplants, Germany)
• Hadrian's Baths at Lepcis Magna, Libya (The Hadrianic Baths at Leptis Magna: A Reconstruction of the Buildings, by Bill Rattenbury)

Image List: The following images from the pages on this topic are available through the VRoma Image Archive; further information can be found by consulting the various slide indices. Images in the VRoma Archive may be used for non-commercial purposes, either by downloading the images or by linking to them; it is not necessary to write for permission, but we do ask that you credit the VRoma Project.

These pages also include a plan of the Stabian Baths in Pompeii (though not identified as such) from the Getty Museum's ArtsEdNet.

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
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
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
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
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
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)
Ephesus	Dougga	Piazza Armerina, 4th century CE

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