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51-665: Justiniana (Ancient Greek: Ιουστινιανή , romanized:  Ioustiniane ) may refer to: Justiniana Prima , a former Byzantine city, near modern Lebane, in Serbia Justiniana Secunda , a former Byzantine city, near modern Lipljan, in Kosovo Archbishopric of Justiniana Prima , a primatial church province, created in 535 See also [ edit ] Justiniana Nova (disambiguation) Justinianopolis (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

102-493: A gladiatorial show, still remains. At the sides of the entrance were seats ( scholae ). The 1898 edition of Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities provided illustrations envisioning the rooms of the Old Baths at Pompeii : A passage ( c ) leads into the apodyterium ( B ), a room for undressing in which all visitors must have met before entering the baths proper. Here, the bathers removed their clothing, which

153-441: A milestone . Behind the boilers, another corridor leads into the court or palaestra ( K ), appropriated to the servants of the bath. The adjoining, smaller set of baths were assigned to the women. The entrance is by the door b , which conducts into a small vestibule ( m ) and from there into the apodyterium ( H ), which, like the one in the men's bath, has a seat ( pulvinus , gradus ) on either side built up against

204-491: A bath or bathing-vessel, such as most persons of any consequence among the Romans possessed in their own houses, and hence the chamber which contained the bath, which is also the proper translation of the word balnearium . The diminutive balneolum is adopted by Seneca to designate the bathroom of Scipio in the villa at Liternum , and is expressly used to characterize the modesty of republican manners as compared with

255-463: A cultural institution the baths served as an important resource where the more common citizen could enjoy the luxury of books. The Baths of Trajan , of Caracalla , and Diocletian all contained rooms determined to be libraries. They have been identified through the architecture of the baths themselves. The presence of niches in the walls are assumed to have been bookcases and have been shown to be sufficiently deep to have contained ancient scrolls. There

306-419: A pipe through the wall, marked on the plan. Underneath the hot chamber was set the circular furnace d , of more than 2 m (6 ft 7 in). in diameter, which heated the water and poured hot air into the hollow cells of the hypocaustum. It passed from the furnace under the first and last of the caldrons by two flues, which are marked on the plan. The boiler containing hot water was placed immediately over

357-471: A private bath. Thermae (Greek: Θέρμαι , Thermai , 'hot springs, hot baths', from the Greek adjective thermos , 'hot') meant properly warm springs, or baths of warm water; but came to be applied to those magnificent edifices which grew up under the empire , in place of the simple balneae of the republic , and which comprised within their range of buildings all the appurtenances belonging to

408-541: A senator hoping to become a Tribune might pay all admission fees at a particular bath on his birthday to become well known to the people of the area. Baths sprang up all over the empire. Where natural hot springs existed (as in Bath, England ; Băile Herculane , Romania or Aquae Calidae near Burgas and Serdica , Bulgaria ) thermae were built around them. Alternatively, a system of hypocausta (from hypo 'below' and kaio 'to burn') were utilised to heat

459-424: A small chamber on his left ( x ) with a toilet ( latrina ), and proceed into a covered portico ( g, g ), which ran round three sides of an open court ( palaestra , A ). These together formed the vestibule of the baths ( vestibulum balnearum ), in which the servants waited. This palaestra was the exercise ground for the young men, or perhaps served as a promenade for visitors to the baths. Within this court

510-400: A sweating-room, having no bath. It was said to have been introduced at Rome by Agrippa and was also called sudatorium and assa . The apodyterium has a passage (q) communicating with the mouth of the furnace (i), called praefurnium or propigneum and, passing down that passage, we reach the chamber M, into which the praefurnium projects, and which is entered from

561-408: A very notable city which he named Justiniana Prima, thus paying a debt of gratitude to the home that fostered him. In that place also he constructed an aqueduct and so caused the city to be abundantly supplied with ever-running water. And many other enterprises were carried out by the founder of this city - works of great size and worthy of especial note. For to enumerate the churches is not easy, and it

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612-430: A week, Roman society was surprisingly clean. When asked by a foreigner why he bathed once a day, a Roman emperor is said to have replied "Because I do not have the time to bathe twice a day." Emperors often built baths to gain favour for themselves and to create a lasting monument of their generosity. If a rich Roman wished to gain the favour of the people, he might arrange for a free admission day in his name. For example,

663-596: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Justiniana Prima In 1979, the archaeological site of Justiniana Prima, identified with Caričin Grad , was added to the Archaeological Sites of Exceptional Importance -list under official protected status by the Republic of Serbia . Justiniana Prima was founded by Emperor Justinian I in 535. Built on

714-502: Is impossible to tell in words of the lodgings for magistrates, the great stoas , the fine marketplaces, the fountains, the streets, the baths, the shops. In brief, the city is both great and populous and blessed in every way. The town was abandoned at around 615. Invading Avars coming from north of the Danube may be one factor, missing political interest in the town after the time of Justinian may be another. Among many other imported finds

765-423: Is little documentation from the writers of the time that there did exist definitive public libraries maintained in the baths, but records have been found that indicated a slave from the imperial household was labelled vilicus thermarum bybliothecae Graecae ('maintenance man of the Greek library of the baths'). However, this may only indicate that the same slave held two positions in succession: "maintenance man of

816-452: The apodyterium the bather who wished to go through the warm bath and sweating process entered the tepidarium ( D ). It did not contain water either at Pompeii nor at the Baths of Hippias, but was merely heated with warm air of an agreeable temperature, in order to prepare the body for the great heat of the vapour and warm baths, and, upon returning, to prevent a too-sudden transition to

867-494: The tepidarium a door opened into the caldarium ( E ), whose mosaic floor was directly above the furnace or hypocaust . Its walls also were hollow, behind the decorated plaster one part of the wall was made from interconnected hollow bricks called tubuli lateraci , forming a great flue filled with heated air. At one end was a round basin ( labrum ), and at the other a quadrangular bathing place ( puelos , alveus , solium , calida piscina ), approached from

918-412: The tepidarium ( D ) and another to the frigidarium ( C ), with its cold plunge-bath referred to as baptisterium (more commonly called natatorium or piscina ), loutron , natatio , or puteus ; the terms natatio and natatorium suggest that some of those baths were also swimming pools . The bath in this chamber is of white marble, surrounded by two marble steps. From

969-497: The caldarium (hot bathing room). The design of baths is discussed by Vitruvius in De architectura (V.10) . Thermae , balneae , balineae , balneum and balineum may all be translated as 'bath' or 'baths', though Latin sources distinguish among these terms. Balneum or balineum , derived from the Greek βαλανεῖον signifies, in its primary sense,

1020-726: The Archbishopric is mentioned in Justinian's own Novel XI from 535, when he promotes the Metropolitan to an archbishop, independent from the Archbishop of Thessalonica . The establishment is seen as part of the feud between Justinian and the Archbishop of Eastern Illyricum , who was a papal vicar. The city was to become capital of Illyricum, but Thessaloniki was preferred and Justinian Prima received jurisdiction over

1071-518: The Forum Baths at Pompeii the floor is mosaic, the arched ceiling adorned with stucco and painting on a coloured ground, the walls red. Anointing was performed by slaves called unctores and aliptae . It sometimes took place before going to the hot bath, and sometimes after the cold bath, before putting on the clothes, in order to check the perspiration. Some baths had a special room ( destrictarium or unctorium ) for this purpose. From

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1122-428: The Forum Baths, which are among the best-preserved Roman baths. These baths were connected to the forum at Pompeii, hence the name. The references are to the floor plan pictured to the right. This specific complex consists of a double set of baths, one for men and one for women. It has six different entrances from the street, one of which ( b ) gives admission to the smaller women's set only. Five other entrances lead to

1173-510: The Greek gymnasia , as well as a regular establishment appropriated for bathing. Writers, however, use these terms without distinction. Thus the baths erected by Claudius Etruscus , the freedman of the Emperor Claudius , are styled by Statius balnea , and by Martial Etrusci thermulae . In an epigram by Martial — subice balneum thermis —the terms are not applied to the whole building, but to two different chambers in

1224-412: The baths" ( vilicus thermarum ) and "employee in the Greek library" (a bybliothecae Graecae ). The reason for this debate is that, although Julius Caesar and Asinius Pollio advocated for public access to books and that libraries be open to all readers, there is little evidence that public libraries existed in the modern sense as we know it. It is more likely that these reserves were maintained for

1275-509: The baths. There were libraries, rooms for poetry readings, and places to buy and eat food. The modern equivalent would be a combination of a library, art gallery, mall, restaurant, gym, and spa. One important function of the baths in Roman society was their role as what we would consider a "branch library" today. Many in the general public did not have access to the grand libraries in Rome and so as

1326-474: The discus thrown. Men would oil themselves and remove the excess with a strigil (cf. the well known Apoxyomenus of Lysippus from the Vatican Museum ). Often wealthy bathers would bring a capsarius , a slave that carried his master's towels, oils, and strigils to the baths and then watched over them once in the baths, as thieves and pickpockets were known to frequent the baths. The changing room

1377-506: The end of the 6th century. The city planning combined classical and Christian elements: thermae , a levantine agorai, and streets with colonnades. Typical Eastern Mediterranean features went along with numerous churches. Procopius , in his The Buildings , describes the city as follows: He therefore built a wall of small compass about this place in the form of a square, placing a tower at each corner, and caused it to be called, as it actually is, Tetrapyrgia. And close by this place he built

1428-482: The farther extremity the labrum . The floor of this chamber is suspended, and its walls perforated for flues, like the corresponding one in the men's baths. The tepidarium in the women's baths had no brazier, but it had a hanging or suspended floor. The baths often included, aside from the three main rooms listed above, a palaestra , or outdoor gymnasium where men would engage in various ball games and exercises. There, among other things, weights were lifted and

1479-404: The furnace; as the water was drawn out from there, it was supplied from the next, the tepidarium , which was raised a little higher and stood a little way off from the furnace. It was already considerably heated from its contiguity to the furnace and the hypocaust below it, so that it supplied the deficiency of the former without materially diminishing its temperature; and the vacuum in this last

1530-488: The keeper of the baths ( balneator ), who exacted the quadrans paid by each visitor, was also stationed. The room ( f) which runs back from the portico, might have been appropriated to him; but most probably it was an oecus or exedra , for the convenience of the better classes while awaiting the return of their acquaintances from the interior. In this court, advertisements for the theatre or other announcements of general interest were posted, one of which, announcing

1581-542: The large imperial bath complexes , while balneae were smaller-scale facilities, public or private, that existed in great numbers throughout Rome. Most Roman cities had at least one – if not many – such buildings, which were centers not only for bathing, but socializing and reading as well. Bathhouses were also provided for wealthy private villas , town houses , and forts . They were supplied with water from an adjacent river or stream, or within cities by aqueduct . The water would be heated by fire then channelled into

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1632-488: The luxury of his own times. But when the baths of private individuals became more sumptuous and comprised many rooms, instead of the one small chamber described by Seneca, the plural balnea or balinea was adopted, which still, in correct language, had reference only to the baths of private persons. Thus, Cicero terms the baths at the villa of his brother Quintus balnearia . Balneae and balineae , which according to Varro have no singular number, were

1683-405: The men's department, of which two ( c and c2 ), communicate directly with the furnaces, and the other three ( a3, a2, a ) with the bathing apartments. Passing through the principal entrance, a (barely visible, right side, one third of the total length from above), which is removed from the street by a narrow footway surrounding the building and after descending three steps, the bather would find

1734-594: The most complete are various public and private baths in Pompeii and nearby sites. The Hammam Essalihine is still in use today. In 1910, Pennsylvania Station was opened in New York City, with a Main Waiting Room that borrowed heavily from the frigidarium of the Baths of Diocletian, especially with the use of repeated groin vaults in the ceiling. The success of the design of Pennsylvania Station in turn

1785-453: The open air. In the baths at Pompeii this chamber also served as an apodyterium for those who took the warm bath. The walls feature a number of separate compartments or recesses for receiving the garments when taken off. The compartments are divided from each other by figures of the kind called atlantes or telamones , which project from the walls and support a rich cornice above them in a wide arch. Three bronze benches were also found in

1836-692: The participation of French and more recently also German researchers. There is a permanent exhibition in the national museum in Leskovac . At the site itself monuments there are impressive remains of the fortification, the acropolis as well as of several churches and many other buildings. 42°57′11.69″N 21°40′11.90″E  /  42.9532472°N 21.6699722°E  / 42.9532472; 21.6699722 Thermae In ancient Rome , thermae (from Greek θερμός thermos , "hot") and balneae (from Greek βαλανεῖον balaneion ) were facilities for bathing. Thermae usually refers to

1887-685: The piped water from a furnace ( praefurnium ). A number of Roman public baths survive, either as ruins or in varying degrees of conservation. Among the more notable are the Roman baths of Bath and the Ravenglass Roman Bath House in England as well as the Baths of Caracalla , of Diocletian , of Titus , of Trajan in Rome and the baths of Sofia , Serdica and Varna . Probably

1938-407: The platform by steps. The labrum held cold water, for pouring upon the bather's head before he left the room. These basins are of marble in the Old Baths, but we hear of alvei of solid silver. Because of the great heat of the room, the caldarium was but slightly ornamented. The Old Baths have no laconicum , which was a chamber still hotter than the caldarium , and used simply as

1989-527: The presence of 2 pieces of a specific type of fibulae and handmade pottery have been understood as an indication of the presence of Slavs already before the Avar incursion (584). The huge correlation between the archaeological site and the description by Procopius as well as finds of seals of the archbishop of Iustiniana Prima have determined the identification of Justiniana Prima with Caričin Grad. There have been archaeological excavations for nearly 100 years with

2040-414: The public baths, but this accuracy of diction is neglected by many of the subsequent writers, and particularly by the poets, amongst whom balnea is not uncommonly used in the plural number to signify the public baths, since the word balneae could not be introduced in a hexameter verse. Pliny also, in the same sentence, makes use of the neuter plural balnea for public, and of balneum for

2091-428: The room, which was heated as well by its contiguity to the hypocaust of the adjoining chamber, as by a brazier of bronze ( foculus ), in which the charcoal ashes were still remaining when the excavation was made. Sitting and perspiring beside such a brazier was called ad flammam sudare . The tepidarium is generally the most highly ornamented room in baths. It was merely a room to sit and be anointed in. In

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2142-407: The same edifice. A public bath was built around three principal rooms: the tepidarium (warm room), the caldarium (hot room), and the frigidarium (cold room). Some thermae also featured steam baths: the sudatorium , a moist steam bath, and the laconicum , a dry hot room. By way of illustration, this article will describe the layout of Pompeii 's Old Baths, otherwise known as

2193-480: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Justiniana . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Justiniana&oldid=1254090588 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text Short description

2244-688: The site of Tauresium, a remote village, it existed until 615 and was designed as the seat of the Archbishopric of Justiniana Prima . The arch-priest of the Illyrians ('Ιλλυριών άρχιερεύς) seated in Justinian Prima had jurisdiction over Dacia Ripensis , Dacia Mediterranea , northern Moesia Superior , Dardania , Macedonia Salutaris , Praevalitana and the territory of Bassianae in Pannonia Secunda . The establishment of

2295-410: The street at c . It was assigned to the fornacatores , or persons in charge of the fires. Of its two staircases, one leads to the roof of the baths, and one to the boilers containing the water. There were three boilers, one of which ( caldarium ) held the hot water; a second, the tepid ( tepidarium ); and the third, the cold ( frigidarium ). The warm water was filled into the warm bath by

2346-464: The territories of the Diocese of Dacia . Still, the new foundation was not without importance and Justinian made sure that this city, which was one of his favourite projects, received all the necessary support. In 545 Justinian issued another law underlining the episcopal rights and status of Justiniana Prima, which is also confirmed by letters that were exchanged between Justinian and Pope Gregory I at

2397-420: The wall. This opens upon a cold bath ( J ), answering to the natatio of the men's set, but of much smaller dimensions. There are four steps on the inside to descend into it. Opposite to the door of entrance into the apodyterium is another doorway which leads to the tepidarium ( G ), which also communicates with the thermal chamber ( F ), on one side of which is a warm bath in a square recess, and at

2448-599: The wealthy elite. Baths were a site for important sculpture; among the well-known pieces recovered from the Baths of Caracalla are the Farnese Bull and Farnese Hercules and over life-size early 3rd century patriotic figures, (now in the Museo di Capodimonte , Naples ). The Romans believed that good health came from bathing, eating, massages, and exercise. The baths, therefore, had all of these things in abundance. Since some citizens would be bathing multiple times

2499-454: Was again filled up from the farthest removed, which contained the cold water received directly from the square reservoir seen behind them. The boilers themselves no longer remain, but the impressions which they have left in the mortar in which they were embedded are clearly visible, and enable us to determine their respective positions and dimensions. Such coppers or boilers appear to have been called miliaria , from their similarity of shape to

2550-473: Was known as the apodyterium (from Greek apodyterion from apoduein 'to take off'). In many ways, baths were the ancient Roman equivalent of community centres. Because the bathing process took so long, conversation was necessary. Many Romans would use the baths as a place to invite their friends to dinner parties, and many politicians would go to the baths to convince fellow Romans to join their causes. The thermae had many attributes in addition to

2601-400: Was taken in charge by slaves known as capsarii , notorious in ancient times for their dishonesty. The apodyterium was a spacious chamber, with stone seats along three sides of the wall ( h ). Holes are still visible on the walls, and probably mark the places where the pegs for the bathers' clothes were set. The chamber was lighted by a glass window, and had six doors. One of these led to

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