Roman Housing Flashcards
1
Q
formal room where guests were received
and clients assembled
A
Atrium
2
Q
small bedroom or sitting room
A
Cubiculum
3
Q
office, where family records and treasure chest were kept
A
Tablinum
4
Q
dining room
A
Triclinium
5
Q
colonnaded interior garden with frescoes, statuary, and fountains
A
Peristylium
6
Q
kitchen
A
Culina
7
Q
decorative pool at the center of the Peristylium
A
Piscina
8
Q
simple apartment block
A
insulae
9
Q
typical city home of the average upper class Roman family
A
domus
10
Q
shops, operated by the patron or rented out
A
tabernae
11
Q
shallow pool in atrium, both for collecting rainwater and decoration
A
impluvium
12
Q
entryway before the front door
A
Vestibulum
13
Q
front door
A
Janua
14
Q
corridor leading from the janua to the atrium
A
Fauces or vestibulum
15
Q
side apartments, storage
A
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