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Ancient baths in Turkey Ancyra (The Caracalla bath) |
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The Roman bath from the time of the emperor Caracalla (211-217), lies in the historical center of Ankara. It was built on a flat settlement hill, which today rises about 2.5 metres above the road. The current entrance to the site is to the east. From there one first enters the square of the Palaestra, which occupied about 80 × 80 meters. The practice area was surrounded on all four sides by porticoes with 32 columns each. These were six metres high, had Corinthian capitals and bore an architrave with inscriptions. Statues were probably erected in the eastern entrance area, two rooms each in the north and south could have been libraries or reading rooms. In the north of the Palaestra 17 metres of the Säulenstraße with adjacent shops were excavated, which probably led to the Augustus temple. To the east of Palaestra, near the entrance, there is a Byzantine tomb. The underground tomb was found near Ankara Central Station in 1930 during the construction of an administrative building and moved here. The tomb has two intersecting barrel vaults and dates back to the 3rd/4th century, it has been restored by the Ankara Museum. |
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On the Palaestra in front of the baths | |||
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Photos: @chim | |||
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