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TEPIDARIUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 636 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TEPIDARIUM  , the

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term given to the warm (
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lepidus) bath-
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room of the
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Roman
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baths . There is an interesting example at
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Pompeii; this was covered with a semicircular barrel vault, decorated with reliefs in stucco, and round the room a series of square recesses or niches divided from one another by Telamones . The tepidarium in the Roman thermae was the
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great central hall round which all the other halls were grouped, and which gave the key to the plans of the thermae: it was probably the hall where the bathers first assembled prior to taking the cold bath or passing through the various hot baths,of Caracalla, the Farnese Hercules, and the
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Toro Farnese, the two gladiators, the sarcophagi of green
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basalt now in the Vatican, and numerous other treasures, were found during the excavations by Paul III. in 1546, and transported to the Vatican and the museum at Naples .

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