The Ruin in the north of the town center of Ephesos (the former capital of the province of Asia, at the west coast of Asia Minor) is a well preserved roman bath consecrated in the mid-2nd c. A.D. The scientific investigations begun in the 1920ies by J. Keil, M. Theuer and F. Miltner, but remained incomplete. The resumption of the research started as an interdisciplinary project together with the Austrian archeologist M. Steskal in 2000 (Austrian Archeological Institute). The plant allows not only a theoretical reconstruction of the complex, but allows also a description of its fittings and an explanation of the technical aspects of the bath. The bath-gymnasium- complex, laid out symmetrically along the east-west longitudinal axis, serves as the "Ideal Type" of an imperial roman a bath complex. During the building archaeology numerous section drawings were done to portrait the current status of the building. Those drawings illustrate a lot of the three dimensional shape and technical organisation of the structure. The functions of the rooms in the bath and the so called Kaisersaal (Imperial Hall) are described and discussed. The Vedius Gymnasium is the first of all four huge bath-gymnasium-complexes in Ephesos to be published.
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The Ruin in the north of the town center of Ephesos (the former capital of the province of Asia, at the west coast of Asia Minor) is a well preserved roman bath consecrated in the mid-2nd c. A.D. The scientific investigations begun in the 1920ies by J. Keil, M. Theuer and F. Miltner, but remained incomplete. The resumption of the research started as an interdisciplinary project together with the Austrian archeologist M. Steskal in 2000 (Austrian Archeological Institute). The plant allows not onl...
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