Roman Baths by junge1
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Description
About ten years ago when the Athens Metro was to be extended they discovered these Roman Baths in this location scheduled to be a ventilation shaft along Amelias Avenue east of the Arch of Hadrian.
This area, until Hadrian, lay outside the fortified city of Athens. The baths continue eastward inside the National Gardens and westward along Amelias Avenue and include a number of chambers, two furnaces, a well, ventilation shafts to allow the circulation of steam, heated walls etc.
These baths were established after the Herulian raids at the end of the 3rd or early in the 4th century AD and later destroyed, but repaired and enlarged during the 5th-6th century AD.
In later years the baths were apparently used as a refuge or martyr's memorial in the early Christian years.
In Byzantine times clay silos for storing cereals were sunk into the rooms of the bath-house section of the archaeological site.
This picture was taken on 26 June 2013,
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Comments (22)
Cyve
Marvelous capture and fantastic POV !
flavia49
gorgeous image
Richardphotos
I can imagine how dirty common bathing areas had to have been. superb photo
UVDan
A beautiful shot and it is good the Metro was renovating!
Faemike55
Very cool capture and story
Minda
stunning capture and Great story sig.
auntietk
I remember reading about this when they found it. What a fascinating, complicated place! It makes me think of the spa I go to, and what it might look like hundreds of years from now if it were dug up. The gorgeous marbles and natural materials would probably look about like this does now, with none of the decorations or lovely touches left to be seen. (I'm not sure what Richard has as a mental image of what a public bath might be like, but I would bet it was scrupulously clean.)
jocko500
this is wonderful history
Juliette.Gribnau
wonderful !; history as well as your photo
starship64
Fantastic shot. What an incredible place!
jayfar
I love archaeology and I take it they put the shaft in another place!
tigertim
Fascinating site... great photo!
dakotabluemoon
Very interesting stuff here my friend.
Badsue
Very interesting shot, thanks for the info as well!
ontar1
That is cool, outstanding capture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
junge1
@jayfar. Yes, the shaft and the extension were re-located!
farmerC
Exellent.
kgb224
Amazing capture my friend. God bless.
nefertiabet
Fantastic capture! I love archaeology :-)
sandra46
GREAT SHOT
danapommet
I can't imagine having to have been part of this excavation time to expose this huge area. Amazing that the stonework had held up through all those years. Wonderful photo and information!
ia-du-lin
great shot!