The Baths do not only provide just a series of baths but a whole leisure complex. The complex includes a public library along with many other facilities. In the library, there are two rooms - one for Greek texts and one for Latin texts.
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| Floor plan of the complex |
There is also a frigidarium (cold room), a double pooltepidarium (middle temperatures room) and a caldarium (hot room) as well as two palaestras (gyms where wresting and boxing took place). At the north of the building there was a natatio (swimming pool). It is roofless with bronze mirrors mounted all around to reflect sunlight into the pool area. The whole building is 6 metres above the ground for storage and furnaces.
The libraries are on the east and west sides of the building and the north wall is devoted purely to shops. The reservoirs on the south wall are provided with water form the Marcian Aqueduct.
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