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been used instead. The small dark chamber at the north end
(/) may have been used as a storeroom for unguents, such as
the Greeks called elaeotJiesium. It seems to have been thought
necessary here to connect the dressing room with the furnace
room (V) by a separate passage.
Light was admitted to the dressing room through a window
in the lunette at the south end, closed by a pane of glass half
an inch thick, set in a bronze frame that turned on two pivots.
Fig. 87. — Baths near the Forum : interior of the men’s tepidarium.
On either side of the window are huge Tritons in stucco relief,
with vases on their shoulders, surrounded by dolphins; under-
neath is a mask of Oceanus, and in the same wall is a niche
for a lamp, similar to that seen in Fig. 87, blackened by the soot.
The frigidarium is well preserved. In all its arrangements
it is almost an exact counterpart of the one in the Stabian
Baths, but the scheme of decoration, suggestive of a garden,
is less realistically carried out, the ground being yellow; and
the round window at the apex of the domed ceiling has a
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been used instead. The small dark chamber at the north end
(/) may have been used as a storeroom for unguents, such as
the Greeks called elaeotJiesium. It seems to have been thought
necessary here to connect the dressing room with the furnace
room (V) by a separate passage.
Light was admitted to the dressing room through a window
in the lunette at the south end, closed by a pane of glass half
an inch thick, set in a bronze frame that turned on two pivots.
Fig. 87. — Baths near the Forum : interior of the men’s tepidarium.
On either side of the window are huge Tritons in stucco relief,
with vases on their shoulders, surrounded by dolphins; under-
neath is a mask of Oceanus, and in the same wall is a niche
for a lamp, similar to that seen in Fig. 87, blackened by the soot.
The frigidarium is well preserved. In all its arrangements
it is almost an exact counterpart of the one in the Stabian
Baths, but the scheme of decoration, suggestive of a garden,
is less realistically carried out, the ground being yellow; and
the round window at the apex of the domed ceiling has a