Suspensure
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Suspensurae in Bath
Suspensura (plural: suspensurae , from Latin suspendere = to hang, to support) is the architectural term Vitruvius used to designate pillars made of square or round brick slabs that supported the suspended floor of a Roman bath or otherwise hypocausted room that covered a cavity through which the hot air could flow to warm the floor.
swell
- Vitruvii de architectura libri decem , V, 10 ( De balnearum dispositionibus et partibus ).
literature
- NK Bansal and Shail: Characteristic parameters of a hypocaust construction. In: Building and Environment. 34/3 (1998), pp. 305-318.
- Robert Jacobus Forbes: Studies in Ancient Technology. Brill, Leiden 1966, p. 38.
- Amparo Graciani: Earthenware Pieces Manufactured for Roman Thermae. In: Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History. Cottbus, May 2009, ( digitized version ).
- Fritz Kretzschmer: The operational test on a hypocaust in the Saalburg. In: Germania. Bulletin of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute. 31 (1953), pp. 64-67.