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CHAPTER XXVII

. THE STABIAN BATHS

_Roman baths in general_: MARQUARDT, Privatleben der Roemer, Edit. 2, pt. 1, pp. 269-297; MAU, article Baeder in the Pauly-Wissowa Realencyclopaedie, vol. 2, pt. 2, pp. 2743-2758; NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 152-155.

_Baths in Pompeii_--_in the second Insula of Region VIII_: MAU, Roem. Mitth., vol. 3 (1888), pp. 194-205, vol. 5 (1890), pp. 130-141, vol. 10 (1895), pp. 218-219. _In the so-called villa of Julia Felix_: CHAMBALU, Die wiederverschuettete Besitzung der Julia Felix beim Amphitheater in Pompeji, Festschrift zur 43ten Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmaenner dargeboten von den hoeheren Lehranstalten Koelns (Cologne, 1895), and the review of this pamphlet by MAU, Roem. Mitth., vol. 10 (1895), pp. 225-227. For the baths of M. Crassus Frugi, see above, p. 408; for the baths in private houses at Pompeii, MAU, Pomp. Beitraege, pp. 149-151, and above, pp. 267, 306-307 (both in the house of the Silver Wedding), 346, 357, 362-363.

_Excavation of the Stabian Baths_ (1854-1857; the official reports are meagre): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 2, pp. 589-658; cf. also MINERVINI, Notizie de' piu recenti scavi di Pompei, Bull. Archeologico Napolitano, Nuova Serie, vols. 2-6 (1853-1858).

_Remains_: MICHAELIS, Die neuen Baeder in Pompeji, Archaeologische Zeitung, vol. 17 (1859), pp. 17-32, 37-46; FINATI, Relazione degli scavi di Pompei, Museo Borb., vol. 16 (15 pp. text and pl. A-B); NICCOLINI, Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei, vol. 1, pt. 3 (12 pp., 8 pls.); NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 140-158; MAU, Pomp. Beitraege, pp. 117-151; OVERBECK-MAU, Pompeji, pp. 215-233; MAU, Geschichte der dec. Wandmalerei, p. 60.

_Paintings_: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 30 (p. 11), 44, 416, 432, 1016, 1057, 1260 _b_, 1545; see below, pl. XIII.

_Origin of the balneae pensiles_ [p. 187]: Valer. Max. IX. I. 1; Plin. N. H. IX. LIV. 168.

_The anteroom of the men's baths_ [p. 190]: in the front part of this was once a shallow basin, undoubtedly for preliminary cleaning before one entered the frigidarium; cf. p. 197.

_Bath basin in the men's tepidarium_ [p. 192]: cf. KUSZINSKY, Aquincum (Budapest, 1889), p. 62.

_The poet declaiming in the bath_ [p. 192]: Petr. Sat. XCI.; Hor. Sat. I. IV. 74-76; and cf. Mayor's note to Juvenal I., 17 and III., 9.

_Pulvinus_ [p. 193], _testudo alvei_ [p. 194]: Vitr. V. X. _Testudo alvei_: MAU, Fulcra lectorum--testudines alveorum, Nachrichten von der Koenigl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Goettingen, 1896, pp. 76-82; VON DUHN and JACOBI, Der griechische Tempel in Pompeji, pp. 33-35 and pl. 9.

_Inscriptions_--_Vulius and Aninius_ [p. 195]: C. I. L. X. 829. _Vaccula_ [p. 197]: C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 1, no. 3340, VI. _Atinius_ [p. 200]: ZVETAIEFF, Sylloge inscriptionum Oscarum, no. 66, pl. 13; VON PLANTA, Grammatik der Oskisch-Umbrischen Dialekte, vol. 2, p. 500; CONWAY, Italic Dialects, vol. 1, p. 61.

_Destrictarium_ [p. 195]: all the rooms at the left of the palaestra are of later date than the inscription; the present destrictarium probably takes the place of an earlier one.

_Improvement of the arrangements for heating_ [p. 196]: the hollow walls of the caldarium are made with hollow tiles, while in the tepidarium tegulae mammatae are used; for a fuller discussion of the successive changes, see MAU, Pomp. Beitraege, pp. 131-141.

_The brazier of Vaccula_ [p. 197]: FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 2, pp. 649-650.

_Hermes in the gymnasium at Phigalia_ [p. 200]: Paus. VIII. XXXIX. 4 (6); cf. also IV. XXXII. 1.

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