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Fig. 48 Gadara, thermal springs, isometric drawing of baths. Improved by the empress Eudocia
(443–60) later enlarged, and finally modified by the caliph Mu�awiya in 664. (S�hot spring; C�
caldarium; F�frigidarium; A�apodyterium; H�entrance hall with pool). (After Yegül (1992) fig. 136)
and Apollinaris) also had baths. 36 The sixth-century governor’s palace at
Ephesus contains a bath with frigidarium, tepidarium and caldarium, arranged
in two parallel rows, and a villa outside Antioch, possibly built by Ardabur
when he was magister militum per Orientem at Antioch (453–66), had a bath
suite. Another private bath of the mid fifth century, attached to a group of
farm buildings at Toprak en Narlica, just east of Antioch, is of the angular
row type, reminiscent of the Syrian village baths. An oblong vestibule opens
into an octagonal frigidarium which recalls a room in thermae (Bath C) at
Antioch. Decorated with floor mosaics of Soteria (‘Well-being’) and
Apolausis (‘Enjoyment’), the chamber has four corner pools and a larger pool
in an alcove. From the octagon a small chamber leads into the sudatorium and
36 Sid. Ap. Carm. xviii,xix, xxii.179,86; xxiii.495–9; Epp. 2.2.4–9; 9.8; 8.4.1.
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