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Sculpture from the Faustina Baths, Miletus · Wikimedia Commons
Miletus Faustina Baths
Thermae Faustinae
BathAsia · Balat, Didim, Aydin, TurkeyBuilt 150 CE
Not standing in 117 CE
About
Miletus's largest bathhouse, built and funded decades after Trajan's death by Faustina the Younger, wife of emperor Marcus Aurelius, around the mid-to-late 2nd century CE. Its three great halls held frigidarium, tepidarium, and caldarium beneath soaring vaults. In 117 CE this whole quarter of the city was still open ground; the empress who gave it her name would not even be born for another decade.
In ancient writing
- Armin von Gerkan and Fritz Krischen, Thermen und Palaestren (Milet: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen seit dem Jahre 1899, Band I, Heft 9) Berlin: Verlag von Heinrich Keller, 1928
German Archaeological Institute excavation report on the Faustina Baths, establishing the mid-to-late 2nd century CE construction date under Faustina the Younger, decades after the 117 CE snapshot.
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