Pankratium Triumphant

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First Floor

  • Stairs to Atrium (second floor; only entrances to building)
  • Dressing Chambers
  • Aurilarium (above ice rooms)
  • Lathandarium (above hot rooms)
  • Baths

Second Floor

  • Entrance Atrium
  • Oiling Chambers (above aurilarium and lathandarium)


Dressing Chambers: Entryway where patrons enter and disrobe, and enter into their chambers, which then lead to the atrium.

Atrium: principal entrance, water closets off to one side, covered portico. Marbled promenade around the edges, with sands for wrestling and fighting. Small rooms off the atrium that can be rented, the renter given the keys and storing his possessions.

Aurilarium: Round pool, kept cold by fistfuls of snow every hour, and a block of ice in a cage beneath the surface of the pool.

  • Ice Water Room, the "cold room" where snow and ice is stored, and the vats of cold water that fed the cold chamber is

Oiling Chamber: empty room filled with brass beds underneath hypocaust vents, which makes them very warm. Laid on with very thin sheets, oiled up and massaged. may be done publicly, in which conversation happens, or in solitary chambers, by a servant, who may or may not provide sexual services therein.

Lathandarium: Round pool, kept hot by flowing just-shy-of-boiling water.

  • Boiler Room: chamber where three-tiered boiler is kept hot and flows down into the Lathandarium.

Open Baths: Three-winged area, with a central shared baths, one for men and one for women. Each has small private baths that lead off of those.