Nerotherms
The Nerothermen ( Latin Thermae Neronianae ) were an ancient thermal baths in Rome and were built by Emperor Nero in 62 AD on the Marsfeld in the north of the Agrippathermen . The facility was located near the Pantheon between today's Piazza della Rotonda in the east, Via della Dogana Veccia in the south, Corso Rinascimento in the west and Via del Pozzo in the north. The system was about 190 by 120 meters in size. In 227 AD the complex was renovated under Severus Alexander , which is why it was also called Thermae Alexandrinae . If the floor plan has been retained, these thermal baths are the first known thermal baths of the Kaiserthermen type. These thermal baths were laid out symmetrically, with an axis of symmetry on which the main bathing rooms lay and on both sides of them other rooms such as the changing rooms or sweat baths.
Today some remains are preserved under the Palazzo Madama. Two columns from the thermal baths stand next to the church of Sant'Eustachio and two more columns support the vestibule of the Pantheon today. A fountain basin from the thermal baths is now in Via degli Staderari.
literature
- Erika Brödner: The Roman thermal baths and the ancient bathing system: a cultural-historical consideration. Theiss, 1997.
- Filippo Coarelli : Rome. An archaeological guide. Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2685-8 , p. 289.
- Thermae Neronianae or Alexandrinae. In: Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, pp. 531-532 ( online ).
- Christian Hülsen : Alexandrinae thermae . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 1398 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Suetonius , Nero 12, 3 ; Tacitus , Annals 14, 47 .
- ↑ Historia Augusta : Severus Alexander 24-25 and 42 ; Eutrop , Breviarium 7, 15 : aedificavit Romae thermas, quae ante Neronianae dictae nunc Alexandrianae appellantur ; Notitia regionum urbis (Romae) XIV , regio IX .
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 55.4 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 33" E