Le Aquae Flavianae fra passato e presente

The baths of Hammam Essalihine in Algeria insist on a hot spring known by the Romans, who with Vespasian realized here an efficient system for the abduction and utilization of the waters, still in use today, originally aimed primarily to the cures of the soldiers from Lambaesis and the castra along the limes. Important structures still remain, partially obliterated by the modern thermal buildings, twenty inscriptions which prove the cohabitation among military and civilian, Romans and Berbers and the existence of syncretic cults practiced in the adjacent sanctuary, finally statues of Asclepius and Hygia, who were the main tutelary gods of these waters together with the Nymphs