Resumen de Al-Mā’ wal’istiḥmām: Mulāḥazāt ḥawla tadbīr al-miyāh bial-ḥammāmāt al-‘umūmiya fī shamāl ’Afriqia khilāl al-marḥalati al-rūmāniya
The Roman public baths are one of the most salient manifestations of the Romanization of North African societies. They have retained, given their size and the multiplicity of their equipment, the same functions enjoyed by their counterparts on the northern shore of the Mediterranean. They serve as public baths and hygiene establishments without forgetting their role as a major social space in the urban fabric. Like other hydraulic installations, public baths required a permanent and regular supply of water in order to be able to fully fulfill their mission. This was achieved thanks to a set of mechanisms and لبكري systems, but also thanks to the frequency of changing the water in the basins during a single day. In this regard, it was possible to distinguish four types of baths in North African towns:
(i) baths that benefited from the waters of public aqueducts and huge cisterns, (ii) baths connected to public aqueducts with cisterns that are smaller and of lesser capacity than the first, (iii) thermal baths supplied by wells, and (iv) thermal baths supplied with water by other means
