Reflecting on the Typological Analysis of Roman Provincial Baths and Bathhouses
Reflecting on the Typological Analysis of Roman Provincial Baths and Bathhouses

Summary/Abstract: The study of bathing in the Roman period is defined by some abiding issues relating to architectureand human involment such as terminology, the origins-debate, the evolution of forms and graspingthe conventional bathing experience. The paper, withstanding current research trends, choses to return to thequestion of the arhitectural habit in the study of bathing in the Roman Empire. The stressed discussion of architecturalfeatures and components is tangible in the writings of earlier scholars and still persists in current historiography.Concerning the British and German research the regional aspects of Roman architecture have beendealt with, considering merely the different approaches in estabilishing a typology of bathhouses. In middle andeastern European countries it is safe to say that the question of bathhouse-arhitecture remains a subject insuficientlyresearched. With the intent of initiating further discussion under the hallmark of provinicial bathhousearhitecturethe paper summarizes withstanding issues like the regional factor, fortress baths, usable resources,terminology and identifying room functionality and the typology of partially unearthend structures.

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