apodyterium การใช้
- It is the cold room or apodyterium.
- The apodyterium ( undressing room ) also survived with fine paintings and frescoes on its walls.
- The apodyterium was also connected via a slype a small narrow passageway to the warm room or tepidarium.
- The " apodyterium " was also the entrance to the baths, which also acted as a locker room.
- Immediately adjacent to the bathing suite are the small rooms nos . 31 33, and were probably warming rooms or apodyterium.
- Most contained an " apodyterium " & mdash; a room just inside the entrance where the bather stored his clothes.
- The " apodyterium ", or changing room, is decorated with scenes of Christians in the area believe the middle figure is Jesus Christ.
- Wider and taller than the " apodyterium ", in half-barrel vault cloister with twelve skylights with hexagonal lights that could have provided coloured lighting providing an ambience in this quiet zone and steam bath.
- The complex was heated from the " praefurnia " ( firing places ); and all rooms except the " apodyterium " and " frigidarium " were served by a hypocaust system ( underfloor and wall heating ).
- Opposite to the door of entrance into the apodyterium is another doorway which leads to the tepidarium ( " G " ), which also communicates with the thermal chamber ( " F " ), on one side of which is a warm bath in a square recess, and at the farther extremity the labrum.
- Following the entrance to the thermae, is the apodyterium ( dressing spaces ), with natatio ( cold pools ), before entering the palaestra ( gymnasium ) or frigidarium ( cold baths ) followed by tepidarium ( warm baths ) and caldarium ( hot chambers ), which were heated by the hypocaust ( underground structures formed by arches or pillars, which allowed the circulation of hot air ) from the praefurnium ( furnace ).