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The Baths of Caracalla: bathtubs and latrine



Bathtub from the baths.
Vatican Museums. Photo: Wikimedia, Rabax63.



Bathtub from the baths.
Rome, Piazza Farnese. Photo: Wikimedia, Jean-Pierre Dalbéra.



Bathtub from the baths.
Florence, Giardino di Boboli. Photo: Wikimedia, Mattes.

Quite unique is a marble latrine in the form of a chariot. Unitl the early twentieth century it was thought that this was a bath-chair, and that the central hole was either a conduit for steam or a drain for water poured over the bather by a slave.



Marble latrine in the form of a chariot.
British Museum, London. Photo: British Museum.