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Erotic scenes in apodyterium of Suburban Baths, Pompeii | Pompeii - The Roman Time Capsule (IMG_1935_36.jpg)

Erotic scenes in apodyterium of Suburban Baths, Pompeii

The changing room of these baths has a vaulted ceiling and is decorated in the fourth style. This changing room had no niches for the bathers clothes, however there was a shelf running round the room above the middle decorative zone on which individual boxes for outdoor clothing would have been placed. The upper zone underlines this by portraying a series of numbered boxes (from 1 to 16) above the line of the shelf. Associated with each box is an erotic image, perhaps to act as a visual memory aid for the bathers.
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