Pl.: apodyteria

The changing room of a Roman-style bathhouse. These were often equipped with benches, sometimes made out of brick or stone, but most often in wood. Especially in early bathhouses, niches to store personal belongings were incorporated into the walls. Sometimes, a small fountain or labrum can also be found in this room. In more luxurious bathhouses, the dressing room was also heated by a hypocaust.

The apodyterium in the women’s section of the Stabian Baths of Pompeii (photo Konogan Beaufay).