Aquae Sulis

For the Roman Baths complex at Aquae Sulis, see Roman Baths (Bath).

Photograph of the Baths showing a rectangular area of greenish water surrounded by yellow stone buildings with pillars. In the background is the tower of the abbey.
The Great Bath. Everything above the level of the pillar bases is of a later date.

Aquae Sulis (Latin for Waters of Sulis) was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is the English city of Bath, Somerset. The Antonine Itinerary register of Roman roads lists the town as Aquis Sulis.[1] Ptolemy records the town as Aquae calidae (warm waters) in his 2nd-century work Geographia, where it is listed as one of the cities of the Belgae.[2]

  1. ^ "The Antonine Itinerary - Iter XIV". roadsofromanbritain.org. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Ptolemy's Geography - Book II, Chapter 2". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 27 April 2020.