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Falkener, Edward
Ephesus and the temple of Diana — London, 1862

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92 ANCIENT EPHESUS.

three chambers at the back of the right portion,—the
sudatio, the laconicum, and the caldarium; but he
does not mention the destination of the correspond- '
ing rooms on the left-hand side. We may not,
therefore, expect to find any great similarity be-
tween this portion of the building and the arrange-
ment given us by Vitruvius. The sudatio he places
in the middle of the mass, and on the right hand
side of the centre, a situation which accords very
well with the room so marked in the plan. Adjoin-
ing this were the laconicum and the caldarium,
and these we may very well place in the room
corresponding to the sudatio, and in one of the
contiguous chambers. This appropriation of the
rooms is not only in accordance with the descrip-
tion of Yitruvius, but also with the character of
construction shown in this building. The ephebium
is, as Vitruvius says, a large hall, and furnished
with exedree all round, and in that side of the
room which is best preserved there are evidences
of five funnels constructed in the thickness of the
wall, which appear to have had some connection
with the warming of the apartment. Such tubes
were also used for the supply of water, and I
extracted one1 from an ancient bath at Miletus,
which measures nearly four inches in diameter,

east angle of St. Paul's Cathedral, where the soil hajipened to be
defective.—(Wren, Parentalia, p. 286.)

1 Now in the Museum of the Eoyal Institute of British
Architects.
 
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