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  • 3 - Experiencing Aquae Sulis

  • Eleri H. Cousins, Lancaster University
  • Book:
    The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    16 January 2020, pp 50-69

  • Summary

    This chapter explores what visitors would have seen at the sanctuary and how its setting and built environment would have shaped their experiences at the site more broadly. It begins with an archaeologically grounded reconstruction of the sanctuary and its monuments. It then uses this reconstruction to discuss Aquae Sulis’s dual role as a classicizing, monumentalized, space, and a space outside the normal bounds of lived existence, with aspects of a pilgrimage destination.

  • 5 - Water from the Earth

  • Eleri H. Cousins, Lancaster University
  • Book:
    The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    16 January 2020, pp 110-149

  • Summary

    This chapter turns to our evidence for ritual practice at the site, in particular activity centred on the three hot springs. Rather than being curative in nature, the water is understood as primarily a medium for enabling ritual relinquishment of objects lost through theft or decay. The chthonic importance of the water is emphasized and linked to other aspects of ritual at the site, in particular reports from the ancient author Solinus that coal was burned on Sulis’s altars. Depositional practice at Aquae Sulis is compared to other watery sites in Britain and Gaul, and the Bath corpus of ‘curse tablets’ is placed into a wider context, with the sanctuary at Uley serving as a particularly important counterpoint to Bath.

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