A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities.. (1849) (14777099144)

Identifier: dictionaryofgree00smit_0 (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities..
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893
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Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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The next woodcut represents the atrium ofwhat is usually called the house of Ceres. In thecentre is the impluvium, and the passage at thefurther end is the ostium or entrance-hall. Asthere are no pillars around the impluvium, thisatrium must belong to the kind called by Vitruviusthe Tuscan.
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The preceding account of the different rooms,and especially of the arrangement of the atrium,tablinum, peristyle, &c, is best illustrated by thehouses which have been disinterred at Pompeii.The ground-plan of two is accordingly subjoined.The first is the plan of a house, usually called thehouse of the tragic poet. Like most of the other houses at Pompeii, ithad no vestibulum according to the meaning whichwe have attached to the word. 1. The ostium orentrance hall, which is six feet wide and nearlythirty long. Near the street door there is a figureof a large fierce dog worked in mosaic on thepavement, and beneath it is written Cave Canem.The two large rooms on each side of the vestibuleappear from the large openings in front of them tohave been shops ; they communicate with the en-trance hall, and were therefore probably occupiedby the master of the house. 2. The atrium, whichis about twenty-eight feet in length and twenty inbreadth; its impluvium is near the centre of theroom, and