Pompeii vocab

Question 1

Peristyle

Answer 1

area enclosed in columns

Question 2

Tablinum

Answer 2

office

Question 3

Atrium

Answer 3

room open to sky with a pool

Question 4

Hortus

Answer 4

garden

Question 5

Impluvium

Answer 5

Pool in the Atrium

Question 6

Cublicula

Answer 6

rooms off the atrium

Question 7

Vestibulum

Answer 7

foyer at the door

Question 8

Triclinium

Answer 8

Dining room

Question 9

Exedra

Answer 9

“entertainment room”

Question 10

Lararium

Answer 10

household shrine

Question 11

Compluvium

Answer 11

hole in the roof of atrium

Question 12

Cistine

Answer 12

Attached to impluvium, used to catch rainwater

Question 13

Expert on Graffiti

Answer 13

Dr. DiBasie Sammons, worked on Graffiti Project 2016

Question 14

Philodemus Project

Answer 14

Work to read the charred papyri found at the Villa of the Papyri using multispectral imaging

Question 15

Neapolis project

Answer 15

Independent Itailian institute working to create a digital database for all of pompeii

Question 16

Karl Weber

Answer 16

Worked to record dig and excavate systematically, found villa of papyri

Question 17

Giuseppi Fiorelli

Answer 17

Intorduced numbering and naming system for buildigs, found bodies and made plaster casts

Question 18

August Mau

Answer 18

Made painting classification system and preserved paintings

Question 19

Amedeo Mairari

Answer 19

found many houses and monuments like House of Menander and restored parts

Question 20

Date of eruption

Answer 20

79 AD

Question 21

Temple of Jupiter

Answer 21

A place for praying and sacrificing to the god, Jupiter was also the god of the state

Question 22

Macellum

Answer 22

Indoor market that sold provisions, mostly meat and fish.

Question 23

Basilica

Answer 23

used for a law court of public assemblies

Question 24

Eumachia

Answer 24

possibly an office used for trade. A very rich woman built it, we know bcause of the inscription of the building.