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20-MAR-2011

Perge march 2012 3898.jpg

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One of many shots at the South Bath. A notice explains this Roman Bath was large in comparison with those in other Pamphylian towns. There are the usual dressing room (apodyterium), cold bath (frigidarium), warm bath (tepidarium), hot bath (caldarium) and an exercise area (palaestra). The heating system (hypocaust) is in plain view in some of the rooms. There were also rooms for intellectual activities, preserving Greek traditions. One of these is a hall dubbed Claudius Piso Gallery because of dedicatory inscriptions on the bese of the many syayues found here. This room and the rest of the bath yielded a large collection now in the Antalya Museum (see my gallery). The complex was built and changed during the first to fifth century AD.


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