Isthmia

Isthmia:
A Virtual Reconstruction

Research for thesis project:
julie apley

5. This is in room V while looking south towards room
III. The wall that divides these two rooms is 1.5 m. tall.
Would that have been accurate? The steps are a
height of 50 cm. which may be too tall???

	Tim: When you say that the wall was 1.5 m. high, are you including the steps? Because there really isn't a wall, but rather steps that lead up to the higher floor level of Room III. The floor level of Room III is below the top of the top step, so if the steps measure 1.5 m., then the floor is below that. I can't comment now on the height of the steps, but normally steps are slightly less than 0.5 m. I'll have to check.
	Fikret: 50 cm. steps is too high. The spur walls you are mentioning would have been taller; the full height is something I have not studied it yet.
	Jayni: I think that you are right, about the steps and walls being to tall but check with Tim and Fikret first.

6. This is in room III looking at both room V and IV.
Were there windows in either room. How would
they have looked?

	Tim:I think there must have been windows there. Jayni's suggestion of a parallel at Sikyon is a good one. If need be, I can go to Sikyon and take pictures for you. (When I can get away.)
	Fikret: Yes, it would be natual to expect arched windows opening into the pool unlits. Hard to know if they would have been low enough to afford the famous view Pliny mentions.
	Jayni: It occurs to me that there is also a good example of windows, much closer to the scale and date of our bath, in Sikyon. Sikyon is a town just west of COrinth and their bath has been remodeled to hold the site museum. Their window treatment is probably very close to ours. I have a few photographs that I can scan and send if you can't find anything else on it. FIkret would know about publications on that bath more than I would

7. This is looking at the apse in room XI.

	Tim: This looks too tall and narrow. Probably the ceiling was lower. But this is just an impression. Windows?
	Fikret: Make the apse semidome lower (top just at the main vault springing) and place a thermal window above it.
	Jayni: I still think that the walls are shown too tall.

8. This is showing the west side of the bath. I have
drawn room XIII, but not XIV. Was room XIV vaulted
or with a flat roof. Any ideas about its purpose?

	Tim: I think Jayni is right about this. You'll notice that its floor level is much lower than the floors of the other parts of the bath, and about the same as the floor in the south service area.
	Fikret: Same
	Jayni: It was a furnace and service area much like the southern service space that you already show