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FRIGIDARIUM

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 231 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FRIGIDARIUM , the Latin
term
  (from frigidus, cold) applied to the open area of the Roman thermae, in which there was generally a cold
swimming
  bath, and sometimes to the bath (see BATHS). From the description given by Aelius Spartianus (A.D. 297) it would seem that portions of the frigidarium were covered over by a ceiling formed of interlaced bars of gilt bronze, and this statement has been to a certain extent substantiated by the discovery of many tons of T-shaped
iron
  found in the excavations under the paving of the frigidarium of the thermae of
Caracalla
 . Dr J. H. Middleton in The Remains of Ancient Rome (1892) points out that in the
part
  of the enclosure walls are deep sinkings to receive the ends of the
great
  girders. He suggests that the panels of the lattice-
work
  ceiling were filled in with concrete made of light
pumice
  stone.


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