Abulmugi Bath

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Abulmugi Bath stood east of the village site of Abulmugi. Due to the gold quarries, it has been relocated further to the south, on the right side of Tbilisi-Dmanisi highway.


 The bath was probably built in the 13th century. It comprises a changing room, a bathroom and a praefurnium. The changing room is on the east and is connected to the bathroom by an arched entrance. The bathroom is a right-angled structure covered with a dome. In the north wall there is a small vaulted pool in which water was conveyed through a pipe. A hot water pool is arranged in the west wall, while the south and west walls have deep and tall niches in them.

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 The floor is paved and plastered with hydro-technical solution. Wastewater was sent out through a sewage pipe put in at the bottom of the east wall. The bathroom has a praefurnium on the west which was connected to the first floor of the bathroom – hypocaust − with a hole. Clay waterpipes that supplied the bathroom with water ran into the praefurnium.

 Abulmugi Bath has been restored. The bath was granted the status of an immovable monument of cultural heritage in 2006.