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At the Stabian Baths (Thermae Stabianae), Pompeii’s largest, you can see the separate men’s and women’s facilities, changing rooms, with clothes-locker niches, and three baths: cold, lukewarm, and hot (frigidarium, tepidarium, and calidarium).
The cave, 54 m (177 ft) long, 15 m (49 ft) high, and 30 m (98 ft) wide, is believed (because of the man-made niches) to have been a nymphaeum, a kind of watery boudoir for the Emperor Tiberius, who retired to Capri in the first century a.d. and built a villa directly above.
The showstoppers at Longmen, carved in the years 680 and 675, respectively, are the Cave of Ten Thousand Buddhas (Wanfodong), with 15,000 little Buddhas carved into its niches, and the Honoring Ancestors Cave (Juxianshiku), constructed at the behest of Tang Empress Wu.
A few ancient and widespread β-rich folds such as the SH3-like barrel and the OB fold appear to have colonized multiple functional niches early in evolution, although their earliest versions may have had roles related to RNA metabolism [ 9, 11, 12, 13].
The fortress-like exterior is decorated with 14 niches: to fill them, the major guilds commissioned statues of patron saints from Florence’s greatest talents (replicas now stand in their place).