Model Building/ Structure Model of the Baths at Lipari

Object number

LDSAL8

Material

Wood
plaster

Dimensions

height: 136mm
width: 680mm
depth: 305mm

Location

Royal Society of Chemistry -

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia, Vol. XXIII, Pl. XIV-XVI, 98.

Wood and plaster model of the thermal baths on Lipari. The model consists of several chambers with tessalated pavements. The decorated floors lift to reveal the hypocaust system and there are flues in the walls. One of these floors depicts a scene of a mermaid and a sea creature within a chequerboard pattern. The other floor shows a figure upon a stylised horse with a bull and fishes. These are surrounded by a geometric pattern border. There is brickwork detail on the exterior of the model.