Her restoration, fastening and highlighting of the complex of Eastern Thermewhich is part of the monumental ensemble of the western city of Delphihas included the Ministry of Culture in its overall planning for the archaeological site of Delphi.

According to today’s announcement Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the studies – architecture, statics, maintenance of the mosaic floors and accessibility – prepared by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Phokidos, received the unanimous positive opinion of the Central Archaeological Council. The bath complex was particularly decorated. All its halls had mosaic floors with geometric patterns and probably marble inlays. Outside the thermae, biomass was burned to heat the rooms.

“The archaeological site of Delphi – inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List – is constantly at the center of the Ministry of Culture’s interest,” said the Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni. As he continued, “the project of fixing the rocks above the High School is already underway, with a budget of over 7,000,000 euros from the Recovery Fund. The complex of the Eastern Thermae is an important late Roman monument of the archaeological site of Delphi, in the eastern extension of the ancient city, outside the walls of the ancient enclosure, to the northeast of the temple of Apollo. The restoration of the complex of the Eastern Thermae contributes, beyond highlighting and strengthening the readability of the complex, to the initiation of the expansion of the visitable part of the archaeological site of Delphi towards its eastern part.”

As the announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs, through a system of ducts and arched openings, hot air was channeled to the hypocausts under the floors, but also to vertical ducts for exhausting the gases on the walls. From the cold area of ​​the bath, the users came out again into the central area of ​​the changing room, thus completing the ritual of the bath. The complex was supplied with water from a large reservoir built in the 3rd century AD. in the area of ​​the Stoa of Attalos. Interesting functional elements related to water supply, drainage, heating, smoke extraction and thermal insulation of hot spaces were found in the monument.

The complex of Anatolik Thermi is contained in an independent building block and is structured in two individual units with a height difference. It grows in an area with a strong slope. The two departments operated independently with different inputs. During the medieval era, buildings of the “Kastri” settlement were founded on the monument, which was moved in 1892 to the west of the archaeological site, to the modern settlement of Delphi.