The Berytus Roman Baths ⛲️The Roman bathhouse was a meeting place for all... (Cisterns of the Roman Baths)
December 01, 2018 by marwan.g.nassar
The Berytus Roman Baths ⛲️
The Roman bathhouse was a meeting place for all citizens. Roman Berytus had four major bath complexes (thermae). The bather moved from warm to hot baths, through rooms of varying temperatures. Located under the floor, the heating system (hypocaust) located under the floor allowed the air, warmed by wood fires in adjacent vaults, to circulate between pillars of terracotta disks that heated the marble floor; terracotta pipes in the walls allowed the air to rise up to the ceiling. Water from the boiler fed the marble-tiled pools in the hot room (caldarium), and a large stone basin (labrum) contained cool water for the bathers’ use. The bathing routine ended with a body massage of therapeutic oils. The high vaulted, spacious halls of the bathhouse also accommodated performances of jesters and musicians.
Roman Berytus Baths were discovered in 1968, then underwent major renovation in the mid-1990s. The Roman bathhouse was a meeting place for all citizens. Roman Berytus had four major bath complexes (thermae) and the first was created in the early first century under Augustus. An intricate network of lead or clay pipes and channels distributed the water from the Cisterns external to the Baths to the various pools of the Roman Baths.
In the second century was probably visited by the emperor Hadrian. The terrible Berytus earthquake -that happed in 551 AD- destroyed all the baths.
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