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    A caldarium (also called a calidarium, cella caldaria or cella coctilium) was a room with a hot plunge bath, used in a Roman bath complex. This was a...
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    open-air bathing pools. The word caldarium comes from the Latin word caleo, meaning "to be hot". The purpose of the caldarium was that of the principal bath...
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    Thermae (section Caldarium)
    aqueduct. The water would be heated by fire then channelled into the caldarium (hot bathing room). The design of baths is discussed by Vitruvius in De...
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    Aurelian (after a fire) and by Diocletian. Under Constantine the Great the caldarium was modified.: 7–8  The building was heated by a hypocaust, a system of...
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    including details about how fuel could be conserved by building the hot room (caldarium) for men next to that for women, with both adjacent to the tepidarium...
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    and constellations, suggesting a connection to the sky painting in the caldarium. Yazid's mother was a Persian princess, suggesting a familiarity with...
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    as trompe-l'œil windows, doors, and painted columns. Frescoes in the caldarium depicting Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides are painted in the...
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    three rooms arranged on an east-west axis: frigidarium, tepidarium, and caldarium. The last two rooms are equipped with an underfloor heating system. Preceding...
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    special room or court, he would enjoy the hot room, known as calidarium or caldarium, then the steam room (a moist sudatorium or a dry laconicum), where he...
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    orangery at the University of Uppsala Botanical Garden: ... since the caldarium (the hot part of the greenhouse) by the angle of the windows, merely from...
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