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When the Syrians bathed like the Romans
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| October 30, 2018
| religionundpolitik@uni-muenster.de
Posted on 11/05/2018 1:36:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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Remains of underfloor heating in the area of the bath. The supports made of tiles carried the floor, with warm air circulating in the space between [Credit: Peter Jülich]
hypercaust
Also used instead of hypocaust; that is, a reference to "underfloor heating".
The air was heated by a furnace (outside the rooms) and once it had circulated underneath the flagstone floors, it escaped via flues in the walls of the rooms, or spaces in the walls, for heat to travel upward. [WordInfo]
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11/05/2018 1:36:20 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
I'd resisted posting this article, because I thought it might lead to gratuitous insults of modern Syrians and Turks. I'm sure we're all above all that. Or just make sure the shots are really, really funny.
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11/05/2018 1:37:19 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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11/05/2018 3:20:03 AM PST
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Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: Deplorable American1776
Probably a popular gift back then was fullonum on a funem.
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11/05/2018 3:28:55 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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11/05/2018 3:51:11 AM PST
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Lee'sGhost
("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
To: SunkenCiv
That’s gonna need to be completely re-grouted. New tiles too - I’d go with ceramic this time.
To: Larry Lucido
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11/05/2018 4:28:37 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
And that was the LAST time they bathed ... </gratutuous insult>
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posted on
11/05/2018 5:11:46 AM PST
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IronJack
To: SunkenCiv
In the days before chlorine those baths must have been Petri dishes!
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posted on
11/05/2018 5:37:48 AM PST
by
jdsteel
(Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
To: SunkenCiv
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11/05/2018 6:15:32 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(No-platform us all you want. Ban us all you want. Smear us all you want. You canÂ’t stop an idea....)
To: SunkenCiv
"Is that your strigil, or are you just happy to see me?"
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11/05/2018 2:35:23 PM PST
by
nicollo
(I said no!)
To: nicollo
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11/05/2018 2:53:34 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Hilarious! I looked that up to find out it was soap (fullonum) on a rope (funem.
To: jdsteel
That must have been a concern, for sure, "pee soup", typhus, but hey, whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. The Empire lasted from the Roman conquest of Ostia to the Fall of Constantinople. Mary Beard discusses bath hygiene in one of her Roman vids (look on YT).
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11/05/2018 2:58:41 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: IronJack
Interestingly, the old Roman way of bathing took hold among the Turks, to the extent that the term "Turkish baths" crept into the idiom.
[long pause]
And that was the least of what might crawl up into the idiom if you tried using one today.
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11/05/2018 3:00:23 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: WashingtonSource
Glad someone did! :^) Now it's time for...
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11/05/2018 3:02:30 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Lee'sGhost
:^) I just give thanks for online translation.
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11/05/2018 3:05:12 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Red Badger
That's a little too close for home nowadays for any Hollywood writer to use. :^)
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11/05/2018 3:06:32 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Ancient Doliche is now modern day Duluk, Turkey. It is an obscure village whose main distinction seems to be the good fortune to find itself on the Turkish side when borders were drawn after WWI.
In ancient times it was an important crossroads. After Christianization of the Empire it became a Bishopric with a basilica. During the wars between the Byzantines and Muslims and later Crusades it was in a border zone fought over by both sides until the ultimate Muslim conquest, after which the burg went into decline. Apparently, bathing went out of style, too.
To: colorado tanker
I think I went to school with Bishop Rick.
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11/05/2018 4:40:45 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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