Turkish bath in a private house in Tripoli, Syria, in 1822

                                         

Plan of domestic baths in a private house in Tripoli in 1822

Plan of domestic baths in a private house (in 1822) in  Tripoli, Syria (now the Lebanon).

In Fig.1, the sudatory (marked B) is 8ft 6in by 6ft 6in  and has a dome ceiling pierced with very small  windows  admitting a feeble light.

< Domestic baths In: Strictures on the personal   cleanliness of the English… — London : The author, 1828. — opposite p.118

 

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David Urquhart & the birth of the Victorian Turkish bath

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