VII.1.8 Pompeii. Terme Stabiane or Stabian Baths.

Women’s Baths and Praefurnium.

Linked to VII.1.48, VII.1.15 and VII.1.17.

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VII.1.8 Pompeii. April 2019.

Room 8, women’s baths anteroom, now roofed, looking south. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2017. Room 8, women’s baths anteroom, now roofed, looking south.

Doorway leading to praefurnium 7 is on left. Doorway to east portico B and gymnasium C is on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 8, anteroom of women’s baths, looking south from changing room 11.

Doorway leading to praefurnium 7 is on left. Doorway to east portico B and gymnasium C is on right.

According to Boyce, on the east wall (left), was a painted single serpent coiling towards an altar with offerings.

He described it as being above the small arched opening that passed the conduit that supplied water for the labrum of the women’s calidarium 9.

This would be somewhere in the vicinity of the large white patch on the wall.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14.  (p. 95, 472)

VII.1.8 Pompeii. June 2012.

Room 8, anteroom of women’s baths, looking south. The doorway to praefurnium 7 is on the left. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2005. Room 8, anteroom of women’s baths, looking south.

The doorway to praefurnium 7 is on the left.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. December 2007. Doorway leading to praefurnium 7 from anteroom 8.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east to praefurnium 7.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. December 2006. Praefurnium 7 with steps to water tanks 6 and entrance VII.1.15 through arch.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2005.

Praefurnium 7 with steps to water tanks 6 and entrance VII.1.15 through arch.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. September 2005. Praefurnium or furnace 7.

VII.1.8 Pompeii. December 2006. Praefurnium 7, arch for passing heat to the hypocaust.

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