Tepidarium, Tepidarium – a warm dry room in classical Roman terms, designed to warm up the body. Tepidarium was heated to 40-45 ° C from hypocaust.
An interesting example of a tepidarium was discovered at excavations in Pompeii; it was covered with a semicircular cylindrical vault decorated with relief on plaster, around the room rows of square openings or niches separated by body mammals. Tepidarium was a large central hall of the Roman baths, around which all other halls were grouped.
Apparently, the tepidarium was a hall in which bathers were preparing to sweat in Caldaria or to take cold baths in the frigidarium. Tepidarium was most richly trimmed with marble and mosaic. The light from the window-lamps on the side, in front and behind, was falling into it, and, it seems, was the hall in which the finest works of art were located.
Thus, in the relics of Caracalla during excavations in 1564 a sculpture of the Farnese bull was found, and many other treasures were discovered during excavations in Pompeii and placed in the Vatican and the Neapolitan Museum.
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