Laconicum

The laconicum was usually a circular room with niches in the axes of the diagonals and was covered by a conical roof with a circular opening at the top, according to Vitruvius (v. 10), from which a brazen shield is suspended by chains, capable of being so lowered and raised as to regulate the temperature.

In addition to the hypocaust under the floor, the wall was lined with ceramic flue pipes.

[3] The largest laconicum, about 75 feet (23 m) in diameter, was that built by Agrippa in the Baths of Agrippa on the south side of the Pantheon, and is referred to by Cassius Dio,[4] who states that, in addition to other works, he constructed the hot bath chamber which he called the Laconicum Gymnasium.

All traces of this building are lost; but in the additions made to the thermae of Agrippa by Septimius Severus, another laconicum was built farther south, portions of which still exist in the so-called Arco di Ciambella.

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