The Forum Baths at Pompeii
Features 1 through 17 form the larger baths, and features 18 through 22 form the
smaller baths. The illustration is
from William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (New York,
Harper, 1874), and is oriented 90 degrees counterclockwise from the main map.
- A. Entrance to smaller baths
- B-C. Entrances to furnaces
- D. North entrance to bathing apartments
- E. East entrance to bathing apartments
- F. Main entrance to bathing apartments
- 1. Latrina
- 2. Portico
- a. Seats
- 3. Atrium
- b. Seats
- 4. Guardroom or exedra?
- 5. Corridor
- 6. Latrina
- 7. Passage
- 8. Frigidarium and apodytarium (dressing room)
- 9. Corridor
- 10. Natatio (cold bath)
- 11. Room
- 12. Tepidarium (warming room)
- 13. Concamerata sudata (thermal chamber) with balneum
(warm bath) to the left and Laconicum (dry heat)
- 14. Passage
- e. Mouth of furnace
- f. Furnace and boilers
- 15. Chamber for praefurnium
- 16. Corridor
- 17. Atrium
- 18. Vestibule
- 19. Apodyterium
- 20. Natatio
- 21. Tepidarium
- 22. Concamerata sudata
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