Sudatorium

A Sudatorium ( from the Latin sudare: sweat ) or concamerata sudatio (after Vitruvius ) designated a Dampfschwitzbad in ancient Baths.

It is comparable to today's saunas. Even today, the term for steam baths in the Roman -Irish baths are used.

A Hypocaustanlage in the floor heated the air. The stones were moistened by a syringe pump ( Dampfaufgießer ), who was usually a slave. The steam leaving the chamber through an opening in the roof. Since the floor was very hot, had, as discoveries prove, clogs are worn.

A special form of the steam room was the Laconicum (also lakonium, from Latin Lacedaemonius Spartans ). It was so named because it was supposedly the only accepted at the Spartans form a warm bath. It was a semicircular alcove or circular room. Mostly it was in addition to the underfloor heating also a brazier in the room. In the center was a shallow pool with water ( labrum ), from which the bather sprinkled themselves.