VII.5.8
Pompeii. Terme del Foro or Forum Baths.
Entrance to vestibule of women’s baths. Excavated 1823.
Part 2 Part 1
Other parts of the baths:
VII.5.2 VII.5.7 VII.5.10 VII.5.12
VII.5.24 VII.6.17 VII.6.18 Forum Baths Plan
VII.5.8 Pompeii. May 2024.
Tepidarium (49), looking towards north-west
corner and doorway into room (46) in north wall.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October
2024.
Tepidarium (49), looking towards north-west corner and doorway into room (46) in north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), doorway into room 46, changing room, in north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), looking towards north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), doorway into Caldarium (50) at east end of north wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), looking towards north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium 49, east wall at south end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8
Pompeii. May 2024. Tepidarium
(49), looking towards south wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
The
tepidarium and calidarium were both equipped with a floor with a cavity
supported by small pillars (suspensurae) for the passage of hot air, which then
also flowed into the walls equipped with tegula mammata tiles creating a hollow
space as seen in this photo.
See PAP E-Journal 02 – 8.3.2024, p. 5-6 fig. 10.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), south wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October
2024.
Tepidarium (49), detail of south wall at east end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October
2024.
Tepidarium (49), detail of south wall at east end, (continuation from above). Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), south wall at west end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), detail from upper south wall, left of centre. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), detail from upper south wall, left of centre. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), centre of south wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8
Pompeii. October 2024.
Tepidarium (49), detail of panel at centre of south wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), detail from upper south wall, right of centre. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024.
Tepidarium (49), detail from south wall at west end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), detail from upper south wall at west end. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. May
2024. Tepidarium
(49), looking towards south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. May 2024. Tepidarium (49), looking towards
west wall. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8
Pompeii. October 2024.
Tepidarium (49), painted panel on west wall in south-west corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October
2024.
Tepidarium (49), detail from upper panel on west wall in south-west corner.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8
Pompeii. October 2024.
Tepidarium (49), detail of painted panel on west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), detail of painted panel on upper west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), detail of painted plant on zoccolo from lower west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), detail of west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), detail from upper west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), detail of painted zoccolo from lower west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8
Pompeii. October 2024.
Tepidarium (49), looking towards north-west
corner, with detail of north wall, on right.
Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October
2024.
Tepidarium (49), detail of panel at north end of west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), looking towards west wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. August 2021. Tepidarium (49), looking
south along west wall.
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.5.8
Pompeii. October 2024.
Tepidarium (49), looking towards north-west corner and north wall, with doorway to Caldarium (50), on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Tepidarium (49), with doorway into Caldarium (50) in north-east corner. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024.
Caldarium (50), doorway into Tepidarium (49). Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Caldarium (50), looking north. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October
2024.
Caldarium (50), looking north along vaulted ceiling. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Caldarium (50), looking north to labrum. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8
Pompeii.
March 2024. Caldarium (50), and labrum (52).
The
masonry support of the labrum, with vegetal decoration, in the calidarium after restoration.
The calidarium was equipped with a small tub for immersion baths and the labrum of which only the masonry support of the tub remains.
The
tepidarium and calidarium were both equipped with a floor with a cavity
supported by small pillars (suspensurae) for the passage of hot air, which then
also flowed into the walls equipped with hollow tegula mammata tiles. The floor
of the calidarium was destroyed in the earthquake of 62 AD. and at the time of
the eruption it was being renovated, as also demonstrated by a pile of mosaic
tiles found in a corner of the room at the time of the excavation and still
preserved on site.
See PAP E-Journal 02 – 8.3.2024, p. 5-6 fig. 9.
Photograph © Parco Archeologico di Pompei.
VII.5.8
Pompeii.
August 2021. Caldarium (50), and base of labrum (52).
Foto
Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Caldarium (50), looking towards east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Caldarium (50), detail from east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Caldarium (50), east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. October 2024. Caldarium (50), connection to the men’s baths. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. August 2021. Caldarium (50). Looking south.
Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.
Prior to the start of the restoration works, the archaeological materials and human remains, historically housed here on wooden shelves, were moved to other deposits in the Park, after having verified and integrated their cataloguing.
See PAP E-Journal 02 – 8.3.2024, p. 7 fig. 11.
VII.5.8 Pompeii, on left. Vicolo delle Terme from Via delle Terme (centre). VII.6 on right.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Upper side wall with arched recess in Vicolo delle Terme.
According to Cooke Cockburn and Donaldson -
“Beyond the hypocaust is another set of baths for the plebeians, or perhaps for the women; little, however, is to be seen but gloomy vaulted rooms, with few indications to determine their use. It is remarkable that, although so long undiscovered, the highest of these vaults, of which a considerable portion remains, was less than eighteen inches (0.45metres) below the surface of the soil.”
See Cooke, Cockburn, Donaldson, Pompeii, Pt 1, 1827, (p.60)
VII.5.8 Pompeii, (side wall), on left. May 2005. Vicolo delle Terme looking south. VII.6. on right.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. May 2011.
West side wall of women’s Forum Baths area, with remains of water tower with lead basin in recess.
Looking south along Vicolo delle Terme. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
VII.5.8 Pompeii, 1980.
West side wall of women’s Forum Baths area, with remains of water tower. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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VII.5.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Side wall, with remains of water tower with lead basin in recess.
VII.5.8 Pompeii. March 2009. Side wall, with remains of water tower and recess.
VII.5.8-9 Pompeii. October 2014.
Water tower, looking north along Vicolo delle Terme. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Part 2 Part 1
Other parts of the baths: VII.5.2 VII.5.7 VII.5.10 VII.5.12 VII.5.24 VII.6.17 VII.6.18 Forum Baths Plan