A Day at the Baths

1
A Day at the Baths

• By Izzy

2
My name is Apulia. Here I am on the right. My
mistress is called Flavia. We live in the
settlement of Aquae Sulis in Britannia. Here is
a picture of us with Izzy at the Thermae.
3
Thermae is our name for the Baths.My mistress
comes here every so often.Let me tell you about
our day.
4
I help my mistress get changed. She steps into
the first pool. It is called a Tepiderium. The
Tepiderium is a pool filled with warm water from
the hot spring that comes up near the Thermae.
5
My mistress moves to the Caldarium. It is very
hot.  It's heated by a fire under the floor.
The floor is held up by stacks of tiles. This
is called a hypocaust.The floor is so hot my
mistress has to wear wooden shoes to keep her
feet from burning.
6
I massage my mistress with expensive oils. They
make her smell lovely.The only problem is that
then I have to scrape off all the oil and dirt
from her skin with a special tool called a
strigil. Yuk!
7
The Frigidarium is a very cold pool. Mistress
Flavia doesnt spend very long in here at
all.She only has a quick plunge like the other
Roman citizens.
8
We need to go to Temple now to worship Sulis
Minerva. First I must help my mistress with her
hair and makeup. The picture below shows how I
do her hair up from the back. I use vermillion
and rose petals for lipstick and kohl for her
eyes. Sometimes I use malachite for green eye
shadow.
9
This is the front of the roof of the Temple to
Sulis Minerva at Aquae Sulis.We worship Sulis
Minerva in this temple.She is goddess of wisdom
and if you ask for her help, she will punish
those who do you wrong.
10
Flavia has decided that it is time to return to
our Villa.She told Izzy that she is having
Roasted Dormouse for her evening meal. Vale !