Starinar 2020 Issue 70, Pages: 145-172
https://doi.org/10.2298/STA2070145B
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Block-type military balneum in Timacum Minus its spatial arrangement, social impacts, and architectural analogies
Bjelić Igor (Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade), igor_bjelic@yahoo.com
The remains of a Roman bath are situated northeast of the remains of the
Timacum Minus castrum. The discovered building is small in size, with a
total area of about 242 m². According to the specific layout of rooms, with
a reduced spatial organization of its plan, the building belongs to the
reduced block-type of military small baths - balneae. In the territory of
Serbia, no military balneae of this type have been discovered so far, which
are otherwise common for border areas throughout the Roman Empire. The
specific spatial relationship between the individual rooms and the
characteristic building forms registered in the building plan indicate that
the origin of the architecture of the military balneum in Timacum Minus
should be associated with the Roman architecture of the balneae that belong
to the villae rusticae in Central Europe.
Keywords: Roman bath, block-type balneum, Timacum Minus