Caldarium

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Caldarium from the Roman baths at Bath, England. The floor has been removed to reveal the empty space where the hot air flowed through to heat the floor.

A Script error: No such module "Lang". (also called a calidarium, cella caldaria or cella coctilium) was a room with a hot plunge bath, used in a Roman bath complex.[1][2] The boiler supplying hot water to a baths complex was also called Script error: No such module "Lang"..[1]

This was a very hot and steamy room heated by a hypocaust, an underfloor heating system using tunnels with hot air,[2] heated by a furnace tended by slaves. It was also the hottest room in the regular sequence of bathing rooms; after the caldarium, bathers would progress back through the tepidarium to the frigidarium.

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The bath's patrons would use olive oil to cleanse themselves by applying it to their bodies and using a strigil to remove the excess. This was sometimes left on the floor for the slaves to pick up or put back in the pot for the women to use for their hair.[3]

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