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A visit to the Roman Baths and Pump Room will take bath pump room, bath tourism you through 2,000 years of history. From the earliest Roman use of Bath's natural hot waters to the fashionable 18th century elegance of the Georgian Pump Room. The Roman Baths is below the modern street level and has four main features, the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman bath house and finds bath pump room, bath tourism from Roman Bath. The Georgian Pump Room is on the ground level.
The Roman Baths Museum contains an important collection of finds from the Baths and Temple complex. These range from architectural fragments – from the monument itself – to inscribed altars and offerings to the Goddess bath pump room, bath tourism excavated from the Sacred Spring. The collection includes other finds from in and around the Roman town of Aquae Sulis, among them inscriptions bath pump room, bath tourism and tomb sculptures recording some of the many pilgrims for whom the cure was possibly not successful. Use the links on the right to bath pump room, bath tourism find out more about some specific items or to search our database of artifacts.
The pediment was supported originally by bath pump room, bath tourism four large, fluted columns. The very powerful central image of the Gorgon’s head glowered down from a height of 15 metres on all who approached the bath pump room, bath tourism temple. The pediment is full of allusions that would have been understood by a well-educated person in the first century. In the corners are Tritons, bath pump room, bath tourism half men and half fish, servants of the water god Neptune. In the lower left centre ground is a face helmet in the form of a dolphin’s head. The small bath pump room, bath tourism owl tucked away to the lower right of the large central roundel is also almost certainly perched atop another helmet. The central head is held aloft by bath pump room, bath tourism female 'Victories', on a shield ringed with oak leaves. The Victories stand on globes. The great head itself has snakes entwined within its beard, wings bath pump room, bath tourism above its ears, beetling brows and a heavy moustache. Above all this, in the apex of the pediment, is a star.