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The Roman House

The Roman House. Domus et Villa et Aedes. Outside: Usually white or beige Sometimes red (7 feet) covered in stucco (plaster) Domus and villa and villa rustica Very few windows. Hard to tell which house was yours. Extra Domum. Roof: Terra cotta Tile. Supra Domum.

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The Roman House

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  1. The Roman House Domus et Villa et Aedes

  2. Outside: • Usually white or beige • Sometimes red (7 feet) • covered in stucco (plaster) • Domus and villa and villa rustica • Very few windows. • Hard to tell which house was yours. Extra Domum

  3. Roof: Terra cotta Tile Supra Domum

  4. Taberna: City houses had two rooms at the street which were rented out as a store. • Sold all kinds of things: clothing, fruit, nuts, vegetables, clothing and accessories, phones, pots, lamps • Most popular: Bread and wine Tabernae

  5. Tabernae

  6. Tabernae

  7. Entrance way: Fauces (throat) • Wooden door(s), iron bars • Ianitor: slave who was the doorman • Vestibulum: take off outer garments • Cave Canem! Fauces

  8. Cave Canem Fauces

  9. Atrium: A large open room • Main features: • Impluvium and Compluvium:Hole in floor: ImpluviumHole in Roof: Compluvium • Lararium: shrine of household gods • Imagines: Death masks of ancestors • Tile floor • Murals or curtains Atrium

  10. Atrium

  11. Impluvium

  12. Lararium

  13. Lararium

  14. Actual Romans at a Lararium

  15. Rooms off to the sides of Atrium: • Alae: open multi purpose rooms, no wall. May be library, storage. • Cubiculum: Bedrooms. Many had tiled floor with the tile showing where the bed went. Some divided in ¼ + ¾ . Personal slave slept there. • Murals: gods resting or being amorous. Ala \ Cubiculum

  16. Cubiculum

  17. Rooms off to the sides of Atrium: • Triclinium (corner room) dining room to accommodate 9 people (3couches of three). Romans ate lying down on couches. Table in the middle. • Murals: bucolic scenes, food production, cows, sheep food, gods banqueting • Floor mosaic: food, fish, bones. Triclinium

  18. Triclinium layout

  19. Tablinum: Paterfamilias main office • Directly between Atrium and Peristylum at back of house. • Enclosed by curtain (atrium side) and wooden doors (peristylum side) Tablinum

  20. Floor Mosaics

  21. Floor Mosaics

  22. Use andron to pass to the back of the house: • Main feature: Peristylum: an open roofed courtyard with columns and with a garden and maybe water feature • Peristylum surrounded by rooms: • More cubicula: Bigger and cooler Back of the house

  23. Culina: Kitchen: wood burning stove, pots, pans and toilet and (stairs to 2nd floor) Only room normally to have window. (no chimney) • Maybe 2ndtriclinium • Posticum: 2nd entrance to the house: for slaves and unimportant guests. • Backwall: mural of garden. Back of the house

  24. Culina

  25. Fresco

  26. Peristylum

  27. Insulae: Apartment bulidings • Ground floor: tabernae • 2nd floor: bigger more expensive apartments • All had steep steps • 3,4,5th floor: smaller apartments: one room for whole family Insulae

  28. Great danger: built from wood; great fire hazard or collapse. • Food: dangerous to cook: eat nuts, fruit, salad, bread • Hot food: buy at a taberna • No bathroom facilities: use a pot, dump out window or dump in sewer. Many buildings had awnings. • Running water: at local fountain • Bath at bath house Insulae

  29. Insulae

  30. Insulae

  31. Sewer System

  32. Water fountain

  33. Sewer System

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