The northern side of Masada contained Herod's private
three-tiered palace/villa, that was built directly on the edge of a cliff.
It commanded a magnificent view of the surroundings as far as Ein Gedi.
The palace bathhouse had four rooms: a hot room (caldanium), cold room
(frigidarium) and its small cold water pool, a larger tepid room (tepidarium)
and the entrance (apotyterium) which included dressing rooms.