Licinian Baths
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The Licinii family funded these winter baths for Thugga under Caracalla, around 212-217 CE, nearly a century after Trajan's death. The complex takes its name from a later inscription honoring Gallienus, a member of the same Licinian clan, who elevated the town to full colonia status in 261 CE. Bathers moved through halls faced in marble and floored in geometric mosaic, passing through a small vestibule into a richly decorated central frigidarium, before a further inscription recorded repairs under Gallienus. In 117 CE this stretch of the lower town was still open ground with houses, no bathhouse in sight.
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