EARLY IMPERIAL BATHS IN THE ROMAN VILLA OF CASAS DE LUJAN, SEGOBRIGA (SAELICES, CUENCA)

The roman villa of Casas de Lujan is located 3 km from Segobriga, Cuenca, and it was discovered in 2010 along with five others roman villas. Among the remains could be identified a pottery workshop, an oil-mill and part of a bathhouse belonging to the domus, on which the present communication is focus. The bathrooms have a praefurnium, a tepidarium, a caldarium and a natatio that could be partially excavated. In the hot room a bichrome mosaic was found, already partly reused. Its characteristics would allow us to date the first construction of these structures in the first quarter of the I century A.D. The excavated remains correspond to the destructions of the buildings that occurred towards the ends of the I century A.D. when reforms were been made in the natatio. These baths are one of the few examples found in the Spanish central plateau.