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POMPEII
fire were found, stands in the middle of the room ; in the wall
at one side is a niche, ornamented to resemble the fagade of a
diminutive temple, in which were placed the images of the
household gods.
A large door in the right wall of the kitchen opened into the
stable (77). Near it was a stairway (3) leading to upper rooms;
in the corner was a pit (4) affording access to a small cellar in
which the standard of the press beam in the adjoining room
(P, 4) was made fast. In the opposite corner was a reservoir
of lead (2) standing on a foundation of masonry; it received
water from the reservoir in the court (A, 3) and supplied the
bath. On the same side of the room is the entrance to the bath
and to the closet (A).
The arrangements of this bath are in a better state of preser-
vation than those of any other Roman bath yet discovered; the
tank and reservoir with
the connecting pipes
may now be seen at
Pompeii in the little
Museum near the Fo-
rum fitted up for the ex-
hibition of the objects
found in this villa. The
bath rooms comprised
an apodyterium (7)),
a tepidarium (71), and
a caldarium (A) with a
bath basin at one end
and a labrum in a semi-
circular recess at the other. The bath was heated from a small
furnace room (A). Over the hot air flue leading from the fur-
nace into the hollow space under the floor of the caldarium was
a water heater in the form of a half cylinder similar to the one
found in the Stabian Baths (p. 188). The tepidarium, as well
as the caldarium, had a hollow floor and walls.
Over the furnace stood a round lead tank, the lower part of
which was encased in masonry; the pipes connectihg it with
the reservoir in the corner of the kitchen and with the bath
Fig. 178. — Hot water tank and reservoir for supplying
the bath in the villa rustica at Boscoreale.
POMPEII
fire were found, stands in the middle of the room ; in the wall
at one side is a niche, ornamented to resemble the fagade of a
diminutive temple, in which were placed the images of the
household gods.
A large door in the right wall of the kitchen opened into the
stable (77). Near it was a stairway (3) leading to upper rooms;
in the corner was a pit (4) affording access to a small cellar in
which the standard of the press beam in the adjoining room
(P, 4) was made fast. In the opposite corner was a reservoir
of lead (2) standing on a foundation of masonry; it received
water from the reservoir in the court (A, 3) and supplied the
bath. On the same side of the room is the entrance to the bath
and to the closet (A).
The arrangements of this bath are in a better state of preser-
vation than those of any other Roman bath yet discovered; the
tank and reservoir with
the connecting pipes
may now be seen at
Pompeii in the little
Museum near the Fo-
rum fitted up for the ex-
hibition of the objects
found in this villa. The
bath rooms comprised
an apodyterium (7)),
a tepidarium (71), and
a caldarium (A) with a
bath basin at one end
and a labrum in a semi-
circular recess at the other. The bath was heated from a small
furnace room (A). Over the hot air flue leading from the fur-
nace into the hollow space under the floor of the caldarium was
a water heater in the form of a half cylinder similar to the one
found in the Stabian Baths (p. 188). The tepidarium, as well
as the caldarium, had a hollow floor and walls.
Over the furnace stood a round lead tank, the lower part of
which was encased in masonry; the pipes connectihg it with
the reservoir in the corner of the kitchen and with the bath
Fig. 178. — Hot water tank and reservoir for supplying
the bath in the villa rustica at Boscoreale.