Terms & Language

Question 1

Lararium

Answer 1

Household shrine

Question 2

Apodyterium

Answer 2

Changing room in bath houses

Question 3

Tepidarium

Answer 3

Warm room

Question 4

Fullonica

Answer 4

Laundry

Question 5

Thermopolium

Answer 5

Fast food restaurant

Question 6

Earthenware jars in thermopoliums

Answer 6

Dolia, served food and mulled wine

Question 7

Tabernae

Answer 7

Small, one-room shops

Question 8

Dolia

Answer 8

Circular earthenware jars that served food & mulled wine in thermopoliums

Question 9

How to distinguish the Building of Eumachia

Answer 9

Has a section of another building at the front

Question 10

Dining room

Answer 10

Triclinium

Question 11

Triclinium

Answer 11

Formal dining room

Question 12

Cubiculum

Answer 12

Bedroom

Question 13

Tablinum

Answer 13

Room/alcove between atrium & peristyle that stored family records on stone tablets

Question 14

Lares

Answer 14

Household gods

Question 15

Genius

Answer 15

God of male lineage, protector of family, and connected to paterfamilias

Question 16

Paterfamilias

Answer 16

Father of the house

Question 17

Penates

Answer 17

God of the pantry

Question 18

Vesta

Answer 18

Goddess of the hearth

Question 19

Mensa ponderaria

Answer 19

Scales used to make sure salespeople were charging the right amount

Question 20

Gods worshipped in the house

Answer 20

Vesta, Lares, Penates, Genius

Question 21

Augustales

Answer 21

Priests who worshipped the imperial cult

Question 22

Buildings dedicated to the imperial cult in Pompeii

Answer 22

Temple of Genius Augusti, commemorative arches

Question 23

Caldarium

Answer 23

Hot room in bath houses

Question 24

Tepidarium

Answer 24

Warm room in bath houses

Question 25

Macellum

Answer 25

Stores in the forum

Question 26

Capitolne triad

Answer 26

Jupiter, Minerva & Juno

Question 27

Jupiter

Answer 27

Overall protector of Rome

Question 28

Juno

Answer 28

Goddess & protector of women

Question 29

Minerva

Answer 29

Goddess of craftworkers

Question 30

Curia

Answer 30

Town council members

Question 31

What were aediles responsible for

Answer 31

Public buildings, games, repair

Question 32

What were the duumviri/duoviri

Answer 32

2 magistrates in joint office

Question 33

Quinquennium

Answer 33

5 years

Question 34

Purpose of the duoviri

Answer 34

Senior magistrates who conducted the census & tried civil cases

Question 35

Evidence of Roman state cult

Answer 35

Fragments: head of Jupiter statue in forum (Pompeii)
Temple of Capitoline Triad in forum (Pompeii)
Temple was elevated, gave status/importance

Question 36

How to tell that it’s the Temple of Isis

Answer 36

In good condition, stairs

Question 37

Evidence of importnace of cult of Isis

Answer 37

Paintings, decorations, furniture & the fact it was one of the first reconstructed buildings after 62AD

Question 38

Villa of Mysteries is dedicated to

Answer 38

Dionysus/Bacchus

Question 39

When did Pliny write that Vesuvius erupted

Answer 39

24th of August, 79AD

Question 40

When did Vesuvius actually erupt

Answer 40

24th of October, 79AD

Question 41

Evidence that changed the date of the eruption

Answer 41

Charcoal inscription dated to 17th of October, fragile and evanscent charcoal wouldn’t have lasted long
Walnuts, chestnuts & pomegranates (Autumnal fruit) in dolia suggest wine harvest was over
Braziers - outdoor fireplace