Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 175
her entered the natafio, ox piscina., where he probablyindulged in the luxury of a swim in about three or fourfeet of water. Round the bath, which was of marble,ran a marble platform, or ambulatory, while the wallswere adorned with niched statues, and the vaulted ceil-ing with painted decorations.… … Pavement of the Thermae ot Caracalla. chamber, whose genial temperature prepared him forthe intense heat of the hot and vapour baths ; or, if he had begun with the latter,mitigated the transition tothe external air. It waswarmed by a twofold appa-ratus :—by means of its pave-ment, which was heated…
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