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Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 6 (1396 words) |
 | Frigidarium 2 is located in the left part of the picture. |
| This week, the total width of the large curved recess (immediately to the east of the pool, of which only the southern extremity had been exposed in 2003, see Field Notes 2003, Roman Baths, August 17-23) could be established at 4.85 m. |
| In the north wall of the room we excavated the contours of a semicircular niche that corresponded with a similar niche in the south wall of the frigidarium. |
| UCL Bentham Project (2694 words) |
| The temperature in the Frigidarium would be preserved by ensuring an "adequate magazine of ice throughout the year" and through certain chemical reactions that he saw taking place in the pools of water in the Frigidarium storage chambers. |
| The Frigidarium papers were written between 1794 and 1809 during a period of war and food shortages throughout the continent and Britain. |
| The Frigidarium was not a true refrigerator since it did not rely on a physical or chemical process to cause the absence of heat (ie create "cold"). |
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