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On the right is the entrance to the Scolastica Baths located along Curetes street. They consisted of three levels. Named after a Christian woman who took over the restoration of the Baths in the fourth century AD, they were initially built in the 1st century.

The upper floor of Scolastica Baths contained a salon with central heating (a large boiler which provided heating to the rooms and hot water to the large bath). The ground floor housed the baths which consisted of a hot water section (caldarium), a warm bath (tepidarium) and a cold bath (frigidarium) as well as a dressing room (apodyterium). The water (hot or cold) and the steam arrived at their sections via underground or inside-the-wall clay pipes. [ephesus.ws]


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