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The Bath (which is protected today by a tile roof) lies west of the Xenon and continues its line and width of the Xenon; it is clearly a part of the same building program in the last years of the 4th century B.C. 
Sunken chamber in Bath, from West. Its large eastern and northwestern rooms are preserved only in their foundations, but the sunken bathing chamber at the southwest corner of the building shows its function clearly. 
Reconstruction of bathing in sunken chamber, from North. A central plunge bath, approached by a broad flight of stairs on its north side, is flanked by two smaller rooms with four tubs in each. 
Tubs on eastern side of sunken chamber, from West. Although the tubs resemble bathtubs in shape, they are uncomfortably narrow and too shallow to be used effectively in that way. 
Reconstruction of tubs in use. They are better thought of as troughs from which water was scooped for bathing. 
Reconstruction with attendant (left) cleaning small reservoir that fed water to tubs. On the south side of the Bath is a reservoir system that fed the tubs and the pool. The water for those reservoirs came from a natural spring on the East side of the valley about 800 m. distant from the Bath. This is the spring called the Adrasteia (after Adrastos, leader of the Seven Against Thebes). 
Tunnel into spring. This spring was formalized by the carving of a large tunnel 0.50 m. wide and 2.00 m. high into the hill for a distance of more than 16 meters. 
Fragment of U-shaped water channel with lime encrustations. The water was piped down to the Bath in an aqueduct made of terracotta U-shaped channels that were covered by standard roof cover tiles.
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