Exam 3

Question 1

Togatus

Answer 1

A man wearing a toga

Question 2

Italic

Answer 2

language used in Ancient Rome

Question 3

Fibulae

Answer 3

An ornamental brooch rather like a safety pin

Question 4

Villanovans

Answer 4

The general name given to the Iron Age inhabitants of central and northern Italy; early Etruscans, formerly thought of as different people

Question 5

Etruria

Answer 5

An ancient country of central Italy, corresponding to present-day Tuscany and part of Umbria

Question 6

Bucchero

Answer 6

Fine black polished pottery made by the Etruscans, especially in the 7th and 6th centuries BC

Question 7

Impasto

Answer 7

Thick grayish pottery made by many Iron Age communities in Italy

Question 8

Tumuli

Answer 8

The type of round burial mound used by Etruscans

Question 9

Cella

Answer 9

An enclosed room of a temple, usually housing the cult statue

Question 10

Capitolium

Answer 10

The main temple for civic worship in Roman colonies.

Named for the deities (Jupiter, Juno, + Minerva) who were venerated on the Capitol in Rome

Question 11

Vulca

Answer 11

Etruscan artist from the town of Veii, only one mentioned
Worked with last of the Roman kings, Taquinius Superbus
Made terracotta statue of Jupiter from inside Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill

Question 12

Alae

Answer 12

A small room, as an alcove, opening into a larger room or courtyard

Question 13

Sarcophagi

Answer 13

A container to hold a dead body. Usually made of stone, but can also be of terracotta, wood, or metal

Question 14

Cistae

Answer 14

Bronze toilet chests that women kept their mirrors in. It was typically decorated on the exterior with incised designs and with small figures that served as handles on the lid

Question 15

Tarquinius Superbus

Answer 15

Last Etruscan king

Question 16

Fauces

Answer 16

The formal name for the entryway into a Roman house. Literally “jaws” in Latin

Question 17

Atrium

Answer 17

The central room of a traditional Roman house

Question 18

Impluvium

Answer 18

A small pool that catches the rain coming through an opening in the roof in the middle of the atrium of a Roman house

Question 19

Tablinum

Answer 19

The main reception room off the atrium in an elegant Roman house

Question 20

Triclinium

Answer 20

A dining room

Question 21

Peristyle

Answer 21

The rectangular courtyard or garden of a Greek or Roman house

Question 22

Cubiculum

Answer 22

An underground burial chamber in Imperial Rome, such as those found in the catacombs

Question 23

Pozzolana

Answer 23

Volcanic earth from the area of Pozzuoli, near Naples, which sets hard like cement after it is mixed with water. The active ingredient in Roman cement

Question 24

Forum

Answer 24

The public open space in a Roman city or town, originally used as a market; the center of political and administrative activities

Question 25

Cloaca Maxima

Answer 25

One of the world’s earliest sewage systems

Question 26

Agger

Answer 26

An earthen mound piled up in front of a ditch to provide extra protection for a town or camp wall

Question 27

Curia

Answer 27

Senate house

Question 28

Comitium

Answer 28

Place where all the political and judicial activity took place

Question 29

Lapis Niger

Answer 29

An ancient shrine associated with Vulcan in the Roman forum

Question 30

Sacra Via

Answer 30

Main Street of Ancient Rome leading from the top of the Capitoline Hill, through some of the religious sites of the forum, to the Colosseum

Question 31

Regia

Answer 31

Originally the residence of the kings of Rome

Question 32

Basilica

Answer 32

The conventional name for halls built to accommodate a crowd of people for civic and administrative purposes

Question 33

Rostra

Answer 33

The prows of captured ships set up in the Roman forum and used as a pulpit for public speeches

Question 34

Castrum

Answer 34

Latin for camp. Used for the rectangular ground plan of Roman colonial settlements that followed a similar layout

Question 35

Cardo

Answer 35

The name for a north-south street in the rectangular grid system

Question 36

Decumanus

Answer 36

An east-west street in the grid layout of Roman towns

Question 37

Suovetaurilia

Answer 37

A sacrifice for purification requiring a big, a sheep, and a bull

Question 38

Verism

Answer 38

The artistic preference of contemporary everyday subject matter instead of heroic or legendary in art and literature

Question 39

Patricians

Answer 39

Citizens who were members of noble families

Question 40

Equestrians

Answer 40

Knights in ancient Rome

Question 41

Plebians

Answer 41

Citizens who made up the common people; not members of the noble families

Question 42

Nodus

Answer 42

A localised swelling (or knot) or a point of intersection

Question 43

Freedmen

Answer 43

An emancipated slave. Freed slaves equally became wealthy and important figures during the period of the Roman empire

Question 44

Dictator

Answer 44

A person with sweeping powers appointed in a time of crisis to restore the government or defend the state

Question 45

Princeps

Answer 45

“First Citizen”, official title of a Roman Emperor

Question 46

Res Gestae

Answer 46

“things done”

Question 47

Exedra

Answer 47

A large curving space set back in a wall or colonnade. Generally uncovered and bigger than an apse.

Question 48

Oculus

Answer 48

The round opening in a dome to let in light