AQUAE GRANNI
(Aachen) Germany.
West
of the province Germania Inferior, probably in the region of the Sunuci settled in the time of Augustus and
Tiberius. About A.D. 80 the legions in this province built
above the hot sulfur springs two baths, the Büchelthermae
and the Münsterthermae, which were still in use in the
second half of the 4th c. A.D. Together with a large
temple complex the baths formed an important health
center, probably for the troops that built them. The
Roman living quarters were included in the area of the
baths. To the NW of the settlement was a necropolis
of the 3d and 4th c. Various finds in Burtscheid suggest
that there too baths had existed. Most of the finds are
now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. Hagen,
Römerstrassen der Rheinprovinz (2d ed. 1931) 246-50; H. v. Petrikovits, “Aachen
(Grabungen),”
BonnJbb 145 (1940) 307-11; id., “Aquae
Iasae,”
Arheološki Vestnik 19 (1968) 89-93; H. Christ,
“Das Karolingische Thermalbad der Aachener Pfalz,”
Germania 36 (1958) 119-32; L. Hugot, “Die römischen
Büchelthermen in Aachen,”
BonnJbb 163 (1963) 188-97; H. Cüppers, “Aquae,”
Der kleine Pauly 1 (1964)
475f; H. Nesselhauf & H. v. Petrikovits, “Ein Weihaltar . . . aus Aachen-Burtscheid,”
BonnJbb 167 (1967)
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H. VON PETRIKOVITS
