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n. A warm room in a Roman baths that was usually heated by a hypocaust
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The tepidarium was the warm (tepidus) bathroom of the Roman baths heated by a hypocaust or underfloor heating system.The specialty of a tepidarium is the pleasant feeling of constant radiant heat which directly affects the human body from the walls and floor.
There is an interesting example at Pompeii; this was covered with a semicircular barrel vault, decorated with reliefs in stucco, and round the room a series of square recesses or niches divided from one another by Telamones. The tepidarium in the Roman thermae was the great central hall round which all the other halls were grouped, and which gave the key to the plans of the thermae. It was probably the hall where the bathers first assembled prior to passing through the various hot baths ( Caldaria) or taking the cold bath ( Frigidarium). The tepidarium was decorated with the richest marbles and mosaics: it received its light through clerestory windows, on the sides, the front and the rear, and would seem to have been the hall in which the finest treasures of art were placed; thus in the thermae of Caracalla, the Farnese Hercules, and the Toro Farnese, the two gladiators, the sarcophagi of green basalt now in the Vatican, and numerous other treasures, were found during the excavations by Paul III in 1546, and transported to the Vatican and the museum at Naples.
Usage examples of "tepidarium".
There was another pool, more than twice the size of this one, a tepidarium where she swam when she was by herself.
Both the calidarium and tepidarium were decorated with mosaics of Roman design and she knew that Drosos found them faintly shocking, since they were all of wholly secular subjects.
The steward took him into the changing room and told him to remove his shoes then they went back out into the passageway and into the tepidarium, where an immensely fat old man lay face down, naked, on a table, being worked on by a young masseur.
Entering the changing room, Atretes stripped off the damp loincloth, took a towel, and went into the tepidarium chamber.
He left the tepidarium and went into the next chamber, the caldarium, the room nearest the boilers.
He returned to the tepidarium for a last few minutes of respite before he was ordered to the massage room.
Antigonus was in the tepidarium, soaking in the warm water, with a retinue of sycophants.
I went to submerge myself in the cooler waters of the tepidarium, and long afterward.
The more luxurious departed by another door to the tepidarium, a place which was heated to a voluptuous warmth, partly by a movable fireplace, principally by a suspended pavement, beneath which was conducted the caloric of the laconicum.
Being then gradually warmed in the tepidarium, which has just been described, the delicate steps of the Pompeian elegant were conducted to the sudatorium.
The steward took him into the changing room and told him to remove his shoes, then they went back out into the passageway and into the tepidarium, where an immensely fat old man lay facedown, naked, on a table, being worked on by a young masseur.
The engineer collected his shoes and walked out of the tepidarium into the gloomy passageway.
To Olivia, this seemed woefully inadequate, for when she was young, nothing less than a full bathcalidarium, tepidarium, frigidariumand a massage with costly oils followed by a nine-course banquet would be considered a proper welcome for so august a man as Belisarius.
Then we went to the tepidarium and splashed about in pools of gradually decreasing warmth, until we were able, without too great a shock, to plunge into the chilly pool of the frigidarium.
They said that we had but negotiated what they called the Kazan Defile, and the next rapids downstream, the Iron Gate, would make the Kazan seem to us in retrospect as serene as the tepidarium in a Roman bathhouse.