The Bath-Gymnasium Complex of Sardis is a fairly common architectural type in Asia Minor combining a Roman bath with its vaulted halls with the colonnaded palaestra of a Hellenistic gymnasium. Starting in the middle of he first century A.D., many examples of this middles of the first century A.D., many examples of this type were constructed in numerous Roman cities of the western and southern coastal regions of Anatolia as well as some inland sites such as Ankyra in Galatia.