Los sistemas de calefacción doméstica de la villa romana La Olmeda, Palencia

摘要

The use of hypocausta in non-thermal rooms has been little studied, in fact, in almost all occasions it is associated with the domestic balnea of the villas or the public baths. But it is also frequent in the Roman villas the existence of hypocausta that provide thermal conditioning to dependencies not necessarily related to the baths of the villa. In La Olmeda some of them are indeed part of the thermal installation of the bath circuit, but most of those that have been discovered constitute only a domestic heating system, much needed, on the other hand, in these lands of long and cold winters. The objective of this article is the study of them, its description and possible evolution in Roman times, the planimetry of how they could be constituted and an approximation to its functioning. From the analysis of the obtained data it has been concluded that the characteristics and the constructive systems of the hypocausta are related to the moment of its conception depending if it was a new implantation or some of the reforms due to the own evolution of The Roman villa.