Roman House and Furniture

Question 1

Domus

Answer 1

The house

Question 2

Insulae

Answer 2

Apartment house

Question 3

Atrium

Answer 3

Atrium

Question 4

Tablinum

Answer 4

Study - found connected to the atrium and may have been used for temporary purposes

Question 5

Compluvium

Answer 5

Central opening in the roof of the atrium and allows light in

Question 6

Impluvium

Answer 6

Found beneath the compluvium and was hollowed out in the floor to catch rainwater

Question 7

Alae

Answer 7

Additional spaces or alcoves

Question 8

Peristylium/Peristylum

Answer 8

Found behind the tablinum, open to the sky, surrounded by rooms and was an open space that had columns around it along with a fountain in the middle

Question 9

Garden

Answer 9

Usually would be seen behind the peristylium

Question 10

Shops

Answer 10

Would be built if the house faced a business street in front of the atrium without decreasing the light in the house

Question 11

Vestibulum

Answer 11

Rows of shops or an open, paved court; shrubs, flowers, statues, and trophies of war if the owner was rich

Question 12

Vestibulum is where the clients

Answer 12

gathered to wait for admission into the atrium

Question 13

The barrier between the atrium and tablinum and also separates rooms on the inside

Answer 13

Curtain(velum)

Question 14

Alter to the Lares and Penates

Answer 14

Seen in the atrium and remained close to where the hearth had been

Question 15

Special chapel is located in the

Answer 15

Peristylium

Question 16

The marriage couch stood opposite of the

Answer 16

Ostium

Question 17

Alea were the rectangular recesses left on the left an right side of the __________ when the smaller rooms on those sides were walked off

Answer 17

Atrium(Alae - Wings)

Question 18

Imagines

Answer 18

Held in the alea and were the wax imprints of the ancestors who held curule offices

Question 19

Imagines were arranged in

Answer 19

Cabinets to show the relations of the men to one another clearly and their great deeds remembered

Question 20

Culina

Answer 20

Kitchen - is regarded as the most important; is placed on the side of the peristylium opposite of the tablinum

Question 21

Latrina

Answer 21

Found near the culina and the bathhouse; is a restroom

Question 22

These two rooms are near each other to use the same sewer connection

Answer 22

Culina and latrina(kitchen and bathhouse)

Question 23

Triclinium

Answer 23

The dining room and part of the peristylium might have served as an outdoor dining room

Question 24

Cubicula

Answer 24

Bedrooms that were very small and had anterooms connected; were situated in the cooled part of the peristylium

Question 26

Bibliotheca

Answer 26

Library that held a numerous amount of book collections; the books and rolls were kept in cases or cabinets around the walls

Question 27

The libraries were sometimes decorated with statues of

Answer 27

Minerva and the Muses

Question 28

The slaves quarters are called the

Answer 28

Cellae servorum in which the servants were packed as closely as possible

Question 29

Most furniture in Rome that has been recovered is made out of

Answer 29

Stone and metal

Question 30

Couch

Answer 30

Lectus

Question 31

A stool or bench with 4 perpendicular legs and no back

Answer 31

Sedile

Question 32

The stool that was an ordinary seat for one person

Answer 32

Sella

Question 33

A bench could accommodate more than one person

Answer 33

Subsellium

Question 34

The famous curule chair that had curved legs

Answer 34

Sella curulis

Question 35

Table

Answer 35

Mensa

Question 36

A stand that had only one support and was usually used to hold a lamp or toilet articles

Answer 36

Monopodium

Question 37

A table with a rectangular top with a raised rim used for holding plates and dishes

Answer 37

Abacus

Question 38

Roman lamp

Answer 38

Lucerna

Question 39

Lamp stands

Answer 39

Candelabra

Question 40

Chests(to hold stuff)

Answer 40

Arcae

Question 41

Cabinets

Answer 41

Armaria

Question 42

Charcoal stoves

Answer 42

Foculi

Question 43

Sundial

Answer 43

Solarium