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January 2016

BATHING WITH THE ROMANS

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    In spite of the small size of the bath, its furnace was skilfully engineered: clearly it was designed and built by a highly specialised team with solid expertise. The furnace supplied hot air for the floor heating system (hypocaustum), ensured intense heat in a separate chamber above it for water-heating vats, and generated hot water vapour in yet another chamber connected to the hot bath room, while smoke escaped through an elaborate system of chimneys embedded in the walls.

    Furnace