Houses - Pompeii - House of the faun

Question 1

When?

Answer 1

2nd century BC - Samnite period

Question 2

When was the SAMNITE period?

Answer 2

200 - 80 BC

Question 3

Why was its position great?

Answer 3

North entrance to forum; main road; close to baths

Question 4

What was it a good example of?

Answer 4

Standard domus

Question 5

What is a standard domus?

Answer 5

Standard atrium - tablinum - hortus axis

Question 6

What is there evidence of in the eastern walls of the tetra style atrium?

Answer 6

Repairs after earthquake of AD 62

Question 7

What were the servants quarters like?

Answer 7

Dark and cramped - little furniture

Question 8

What was it named after?

Answer 8

Bronze statue of dancing faun

Question 9

Where was the bronze statue of the dancing faun?

Answer 9

Lip of the impluvium

Question 10

What was the purpose of the impluvium?

Answer 10

Catch rainwater

Question 11

How many square meters?

Answer 11

3000

Question 12

What did the house occupy?

Answer 12

An entire city block

Question 13

The 5 major parts?

Answer 13

Tuscan atrium, tetrastyle atrium, service rooms and coordioors, and the two peristyles

Question 14

It had tabernae, what was this?

Answer 14

Storefront shops

Question 15

It balneum, what is this?

Answer 15

Private bath system

Question 16

The private bath system was in the domestic wing, where was this?

Answer 16

Right of the entrance

Question 17

What latin message was the entrance decorated with?

Answer 17

Latin message “HAVE”