bathing architecture in f78v

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I find the perspective in this particular VM image so very weird. The women are sitting on top in green water and then below there's the windows with something blue behind them

Maybe it's a composite drawing (e.g., inside and outside). Here's the building (or protective structure for a bath section, not necessarily roofed)... here's what it looks like from the inside—sort of a VMS version of a "cut-away" architectural drawing so you can see what's going on on the inside and outside at the same time.


This example from Puteolis is a more conventional style of cut-away, more recognizable to 21st-century audiences. Nearby there are many buildings with interesting You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:



Many of the textures in the VMS bathing pages remind me of caves, grottoes and tents, and all those motifs would fit in perfectly with some of the hike-in natural spas of the middle ages, many of which still had remnants of water pipes, built-up stones, and arched-window buildings left over from Roman times.