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ment of the bath; it was provided with entrances on three sides. Along the south
wall of this room are three apartments, lower than the main room. The easternmost
is a small chamber, not opening into the main room. The next is a very small, low,
chamber with walls of double thickness, and having openings on all sides; at the w^st
is an oblong chamber which was covered with a tunnel vault. This last chamber has
doorways opening to north and south, besides that leading into the small chamber, and,
at its west end, are two piers outside of which is a fragment of curved wall which was
part of an apsis. On the south of these three compartments is another long apart-
ment 3.10 m. wide, entered from all three of the rooms above described, and opening
to the east into a square chamber which projects to the east, free on three sides. The
large room on the north corresponds to the main hall in the baths at Serdjilla. 1 The
long apartment that was tunnel vaulted and had an apsis at one end, was perhaps
the tepidarium of the bath, the small chamber adjoining it, with its thick walls and
low stone ceiling, was a caldarium or a sudatorium. The third room may have held
the furnace. The oblong chamber south of these three rooms was perhaps the frigi-
darium, and the room east of it, which has an entrance from the outside, may have
been for the reception and storing of fuel. Section G-H fill. 183) shows a cut through
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Ill. 183.
the main hall with the tribune at one end, and windows high in the side walls and
larger, coupled, windows in the end wall. To the right is a section through the vaulted
room, the vault of which is lower than the windows in the south wall of the main hall.
Next to this is a cut through the frigidarium which is so ruinous that it is impossible
to know how it was roofed. In Section K-L a cut through the tepidarium, in the
opposite direction, is given, showing the apsidal exedra, a groove for a pipe in the wall,
and the doorway which leads into the main hall. Adjoining this on the right are the
two small low chambers with thick walls which probably carried a reservoir for water,
between the end of the tunnel vault and the east wall of the building where there is
another groove for a descending water pipe. There are other grooves for pipes in the
immediate vicinity showing that the water supply was situated somewhere near by.
Across the narrow street which bounds the large bath on the east, is a long build-
ing which is shown on the map of the town. This faces the south; it has two stories
1 Div. II, B. 3, p. 120.
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ment of the bath; it was provided with entrances on three sides. Along the south
wall of this room are three apartments, lower than the main room. The easternmost
is a small chamber, not opening into the main room. The next is a very small, low,
chamber with walls of double thickness, and having openings on all sides; at the w^st
is an oblong chamber which was covered with a tunnel vault. This last chamber has
doorways opening to north and south, besides that leading into the small chamber, and,
at its west end, are two piers outside of which is a fragment of curved wall which was
part of an apsis. On the south of these three compartments is another long apart-
ment 3.10 m. wide, entered from all three of the rooms above described, and opening
to the east into a square chamber which projects to the east, free on three sides. The
large room on the north corresponds to the main hall in the baths at Serdjilla. 1 The
long apartment that was tunnel vaulted and had an apsis at one end, was perhaps
the tepidarium of the bath, the small chamber adjoining it, with its thick walls and
low stone ceiling, was a caldarium or a sudatorium. The third room may have held
the furnace. The oblong chamber south of these three rooms was perhaps the frigi-
darium, and the room east of it, which has an entrance from the outside, may have
been for the reception and storing of fuel. Section G-H fill. 183) shows a cut through
B
5ECTI0N-G-H-
BABISKA
5MALL BATHS-
RESTORATIONS-
SECTION -K-L-
Ill. 183.
the main hall with the tribune at one end, and windows high in the side walls and
larger, coupled, windows in the end wall. To the right is a section through the vaulted
room, the vault of which is lower than the windows in the south wall of the main hall.
Next to this is a cut through the frigidarium which is so ruinous that it is impossible
to know how it was roofed. In Section K-L a cut through the tepidarium, in the
opposite direction, is given, showing the apsidal exedra, a groove for a pipe in the wall,
and the doorway which leads into the main hall. Adjoining this on the right are the
two small low chambers with thick walls which probably carried a reservoir for water,
between the end of the tunnel vault and the east wall of the building where there is
another groove for a descending water pipe. There are other grooves for pipes in the
immediate vicinity showing that the water supply was situated somewhere near by.
Across the narrow street which bounds the large bath on the east, is a long build-
ing which is shown on the map of the town. This faces the south; it has two stories
1 Div. II, B. 3, p. 120.