DESCRIPTION:

The western section of the public baths at Kourion features areas for hot baths (caldaria), lukewarm baths (tepidaria), and changing rooms.

Hot baths 10 and 11 are connected and situated against the western wall of the Nymphaeum. In this section, the remaining hot baths include an apsidal room (12) that functioned as a lukewarm bath (tepidarium). Next is a rectangular sweating room (sudatorium 13) with a rectangular pool for group bathing along its northern side. Following this is the hot bath (caldarium 14), which contains two pools for group bathing: one semi-circular on the north side and one rectangular along the western wall. To the south of this bath is the praefurnium, which still retains several parts of the small columns (pilae) that supported the raised floor. Hot air from the hypocaust system circulated beneath this floor.