Pompeii vocab Flashcards
Peristyle
area enclosed in columns
Tablinum
office
Atrium
room open to sky with a pool
Hortus
garden
Impluvium
Pool in the Atrium
Cublicula
rooms off the atrium
Vestibulum
foyer at the door
Triclinium
Dining room
Exedra
“entertainment room”
Lararium
household shrine
Compluvium
hole in the roof of atrium
Cistine
Attached to impluvium, used to catch rainwater
Expert on Graffiti
Dr. DiBasie Sammons, worked on Graffiti Project 2016
Philodemus Project
Work to read the charred papyri found at the Villa of the Papyri using multispectral imaging
Neapolis project
Independent Itailian institute working to create a digital database for all of pompeii
Karl Weber
Worked to record dig and excavate systematically, found villa of papyri
Giuseppi Fiorelli
Intorduced numbering and naming system for buildigs, found bodies and made plaster casts
August Mau
Made painting classification system and preserved paintings
Amedeo Mairari
found many houses and monuments like House of Menander and restored parts
Date of eruption
79 AD
Temple of Jupiter
A place for praying and sacrificing to the god, Jupiter was also the god of the state
Macellum
Indoor market that sold provisions, mostly meat and fish.
Basilica
used for a law court of public assemblies
Eumachia
possibly an office used for trade. A very rich woman built it, we know bcause of the inscription of the building.
