DESCRIPTION:

According to inscriptions, the baths were constructed during the reign of the emperor Trajan, around AD 101/102, and constitute a classic example of a small public bath with an entrance and an atrium. The bath complex consisted of two main baths, three warm baths, two changing rooms, the ‘‘office’’ of the bath attendant and a furnace. The bathrooms were combined spaces for warm (caldarium) and lukewarm (tepidarium) baths, a steam bath (sudatorium) and a cold bath (frigidarium). Cold water cisterns paved with mosaics were available at the end of the long hall and in one of the rooms. The heat was transmitted to these rooms beneath the floors and through the hypocausts. The bathers made a gentle transition from the cold to the hot bath and returned gradually towards the cold bath before exiting the facility.