Shall we go «Ad Aquas»? Putting Roman healing spas on the map
Bathing constructions are currently one of the better preserved and studied monuments of the Roman Empire. Nevertheless, there remains a significant research gap as to the nature of water exploited within. The mineral-medicinal waters, in fact, conditioned not only the location, but also the functio...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Data de publicação: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositório: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/691941 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/691941 https://dx.doi.org/10.5944/etfi.12.2019.25939 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Healing spas Ancient thermalism Roman Empire Thermal architecture Arqueología |
| Resumo: | Bathing constructions are currently one of the better preserved and studied monuments of the Roman Empire. Nevertheless, there remains a significant research gap as to the nature of water exploited within. The mineral-medicinal waters, in fact, conditioned not only the location, but also the function and, consequently, the architecture of these features. Hence, one of the main objectives of our current study is to highlight some of the main architectonic and functional characteristics of these bathing complexes from a selection of the better preserved and/or better documented spas using mineral-medicinal waters in the Roman Empire (henceforth referred to as healing or thermal spas/baths). This paper thus presents an initial distribution map, reviews the current state of research on this subject as well as some of the drawbacks to their study |
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