The main rooms were decorated with coloured plaster walls and, if they could be afforded, with mosaics. There often was an added floor to create two low floors (the upper one was called pergola).Ī taberna was not necessarily suitable for living, but could also be a shop or a simple shed to keep various things. Inside there usually was one or more back rooms. The taberna was a room that surrounded the atrium, with its entrance from the outside, but it didn’t lead into the house. Image source: by Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar Sometimes in front of the bedroom, there was a small antechamber, the procoeton, where a personal servant would sleep. According to the Roman tradition of giving each room a very specific use, the floor mosaics of the cubiculum often clearly marked out the rectangle where the bed was to be placed. Those bedrooms situated around the atrium were smaller than the others. The cubiculum was the bedroom of the Roman house. The summer triclinium decorated in the Fourth Style, House of the Prince of Naples, Pompeii, Italy In earlier days the meals were eaten in the atrium, the tablinum, or a dining room above the tablinum, known as the cenaculum.īut with the introduction of the Greek practice of eating in reclined position, the triclinium was set aside as a special dining room. The triclinium was the Roman dining room.
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However, with the introduction of the open roof above the atrium and the general abandoning of windows in the Roman house, the alae became largely obsolete.
The open rooms on each side of the atrium were called alae (alae are the plural of ala, the word ala means ‘wing’). The House of the Tragic Poet-Pompeii, Italy. The atrium of the House of the Tragic Poet, (also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House) typical 2nd century BC Roman house in Pompeii, Italy. would have acted as the study of the pater familias (family’s head). were all opened to increase ventilation during hot days. It was situated between the atrium and the peristylium: it was only separated from the atrium by a curtain that could easily be drawn back and from the peristylium by a wooden screen or wide doors. The large reception room of the house was the tablinum. “Casa degli Amorini Dorati”, Pompeii, italy.Ĭasa degli Amorini Dorati. It usually was incorporated into the house itself and was surrounded by columns supporting the roof. The peristylium (sometimes called the peristyle in English) was in effect the garden of the house and was accessible by the andron (a passageway). Image source: (architecture)#/media/File:Atrium_interior.jpg 19th-century artist’s reimagining of an atrium in a Pompeian domus. Also, it contained the little chapel to the ancestral spirits ( lararium), the household safe ( arca), and sometimes a bust of the master of the house. There were several kinds of atrium: the Impluvium, the tuscanium, the tetrastylum, the corinthium, the displuviatum, the testudinatum.Īs the centerpiece of the house, the entrance hall was the most lavishly furnished room.
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