East_Bath

At the entrance to the church, an inscription can be seen that announces the gift of the bath by a certain Tiberios Klaudios Menelaos.

The inscription reads (with the preserved part in black):

The East Bath

Plan of the East Church with surroundings.

(J. Blid)

[ΘEOIΣ ΣEBAΣTOIΣ KAI ΔII ΛABPAIYNΔΩI ΣΩT]HPI KAI TΩ ΔHMΩI [TIBEPIOΣ KΛAYDIOΣ XPYΣAOPOΣ YIOΣ KYPEINA M]ENEΛAOΣ TO BAΛANHON [KAI AΛΛA (?) EK TΩN IΔIΩN ANEΘHK]EN

[To Gods Augustus and Zeus Labraiyndos Saviour] and the people [Tiberios Klaudios, son of Chrysaor, of the tribus Quirina] Menelaos [dedicated] the bath [and the other objects (?) by his own means]

It has been possible to restore the missing parts of this text thanks to another inscription, cut on a base at the north wall of the church, in which this gift from him is celebrated by the town assembly of Mylasa. The East Bath, which mainly lies to the south of the Byzantine Church, has only been partly investigated. Its hot bath (sudatorium), heated by a heating chamber (hypocaust) below the floor, lies immediately east of the Doric Building. Its floor was resting on round brick pillars, and an opening in the wall north of the heating chamber shows that its underground furnace (praefurnium) was located where the south-western room of the church is now placed. Two other rooms of the bath immediately south of the church have also been partly traced. It appears that the northern wall of the bath was reused as the western part of the church’s south wall.

1.South Propylon 2.Doric Building 3. East Church 4.East Bath 5.East Propylon 6.Hypostyle Structure 7.North wall of Propylon area