TEPIDARIUM
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V26,
Page 636
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
TEPIDARIUM
, the See also:term given to the warm (See also:lepidus) See also:bath-See also:room of the See also:Roman See also:baths
.
There is an interesting example at See also:Pompeii; this was covered with a semicircular See also:barrel vault, decorated with reliefs in See also:stucco, and See also:round the room a See also:series of square recesses or niches divided from one another by See also:Telamones
.
The tepidarium in the Roman thermae was the See also:great central See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall round which all the other halls were grouped, and which gave the See also:key to the plans of the thermae: it was probably the hall where the bathers first assembled See also:prior to taking the See also:cold bath or passing through the various hot baths,of See also:Caracalla, the See also:Farnese See also:Hercules, and the See also:Toro Farnese, the two See also:gladiators, the sarcophagi of See also:green See also:basalt now in the Vatican, and numerous other treasures, were found during the excavations by See also:Paul III. in 1546, and transported to the Vatican and the museum at See also:Naples
.
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