Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867) (14594535869)

Identifier: handbookofarchae00west (find matches)
Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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2.5 L/J W.M »;« HOUSE OF PANSA. Prothyrum. Tuscan Atrium. Impluvium. Ala. Open Tablinum. Fauces. Apartments. Peristyle. Open court. Private entrance to Peristyle. Basin. Bed-chambers. Library. Triclinium. 15.16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.23, 24.25-29. 26. 27. 28. Winter aecus. Large Summer a?cus. Fauces from Peristyle to garden. Kitchen. Servants hall. Cabinet. Portico. Garden. Baking establishments. Entrance to Peristyle from side street. Reservoir. Tank. 12 HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY. had its roof inclined the contrary way, so as to throw the water offto the outside of the house instead of carrying it into the implu-viuni. Y. The atrium testudinatum was roofed all over, withoutany vacancy or compluvium. At the further end of the atrium was
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the tablinum, where the family archives were kept. It was sepa-rated from the cavaedium by an aulreum or curtain, like a drop-scene.In summer the tablinum was used as a dining room. Near thetablinum were two small open rooms (alaa), and in a corner of the BOUSES. 13 atrium was the lararimn, or small private chapel. By the side ofthe tablinum was a corridor (fauces) which led to the privateapartments—the first of which to be mentioned is the peristyle.It resembled the atrium, being in fact a court open to the sky inthe middle, and surrounded by a colonnade, but it was larger in itsdimensions. The centre of the court was often decorated withshrubs and flowers, and was then called xystus. The other rooms,besides the bedchambers, the smaller ones for the women (cubicula),others with an alcove (thalami) for the master of the house, for hisdaughters, were the triclinium, or dining room, so named from thethree beds, kXlvoll, which encompassed the table on three sides,leaving the fourth ope