Looking at one of the bathhouses at Bet She'an. These are from the Roman period, and they had running water, hot baths and a sewage system.
Model of the western bathhouse. It was quite large.
On top of these little stone pillars was the floor. There was a furnace heating up the air underneath the floor, creating a sort of sauna.
The people here are looking at the latrine system. A person would sit atop 2 adjacent seat segments (with a gap between them)
Faith Lesson:
We actually missed our Faith-lesson, but were later told that it was about sponges.
The stones sticking out of the wall here are latrine seats. The trough underneath the seats was where the water would flow through. This was most likely where people would dip sea sponges, which were put on sticks, to clean themselves after using the latrine.
The Bible says that Jesus was offered a drink from a sponge on a stick while on the cross. It doesn't sound as kind anymore.
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