VII.1.8 Pompeii. Terme Stabiane or Stabian Baths.

Men’s Warm, Hot and Cold Baths.

Linked to Men’s Changing Room.

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VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Looking west across apodyterium 2 towards vestibule 1 and entrance doorway from portico B.

The doorway leading from the tepidarium 3 is on the near right.

The doorway into frigidarium 4 is on the north side of vestibule 1, here seen with a figure standing in the doorway.

Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Looking west across floor of vestibule 1 towards entrance doorway from portico B.

The doorway to frigidarium 4 is on the right. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. Looking north through doorway into frigidarium 4.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. 1984. Looking south towards doorway out of frigidarium 4.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Cold bath in frigidarium 4.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Cold bath in frigidarium 4. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Cold bath in frigidarium 4. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2005. Cold bath and step in frigidarium 4.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Cold bath, step and recesses in frigidarium 4.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Frigidarium 4, cold bath, step and recesses.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.1.8 Pompeii. April 2013. Cold bath, step and recesses in frigidarium 4. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. 2015/2016.

Frigidarium 4, detail. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Arched recess on west side of frigidarium 4.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Arched recess on west side of frigidarium 4. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2005. Arched recess on west side in frigidarium 4.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. West side with painted decoration between recesses in frigidarium 4.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Painted decoration between recesses in frigidarium 4.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Painted decoration between recesses in frigidarium 4. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Abbate, of painting existing in frigidarium.

On the west wall between the recesses was a painted garden scene similar to the one on the east wall (see ADS 470 below).

In this scene, the central figure was stretched out and seen from the rear, in a pose characteristic of a marble Hermaphrodite.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 471.

Photo © ICCD. http://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it

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VII.1.8 Pompeii.

1857 Drawing by Andrea Russo, showing (top) painted garden scene between recesses on west side of frigidarium.

The bottom drawing shows the tepidarium.

See Bullettino Archeologico Napolitano 125, 1857, p. 1, Tav. 1.

VII.1.8 Pompeii.

Drawing by Nicola La Volpe, 1855, showing the Hermaphrodite (above) from the west wall of the frigidarium.

Below is Silenus from the east wall.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 469.

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VII.1.8 Pompeii.

Painting by Giuseppe Abbate, showing painted garden scene between recesses on east side of frigidarium.

In the centre of the painting on this side was an old Silenus, clearly connected to the Hermaphrodite seen in the painted garden on the west wall.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 470.

Photo © ICCD. http://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it

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VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2005. Painted decoration between recesses in frigidarium 4.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2005. Recess in frigidarium 4.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Recesses on north side of frigidarium 4. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. April 2010.

Looking towards recesses on north side of frigidarium 4. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. April 2005. Recesses on north side of frigidarium 4. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. 1984. Recesses in frigidarium 4.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Frigidarium 4, north side.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2005. North side of frigidarium 4.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. 1984. Detail of recesses in centre of north side of frigidarium 4.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Recess on north-east side of frigidarium 4.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.1.8 Pompeii. 1959. Recess on north-east side of frigidarium 4. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Frigidarium 4, remains of painted decoration between recesses, on east side.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Frigidarium 4, remains of painted decoration between recesses. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. 1959.

Frigidarium 4, remains of painted decoration between recesses on north-east side. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Recess on east side of frigidarium 4. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Recess on east side of frigidarium 4.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012. Recess on east side of frigidarium 4. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2005. Recess on east side of frigidarium 4.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. July 2021. Frigidarium 4, ceiling with central opening.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR

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