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What was the open courtyard between the street and the door to the house?

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Vestibulum

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What was the door?

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Ostium or ianua

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What was the passage or entrance to the atrium?

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Fauces

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What was the main room or center of the house?

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Atrium

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5
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What was the large basin use to collect water?

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Impluvium

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What was the large hole on the roof used to let in rain water?

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Compluvium

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What was the room separated from the atrium by curtains, also known as the master’s study?

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Tablinum

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What was the passage between the atrium and the peristylum?

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Andron

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9
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What a shop that sold house hold goods?

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Taberna

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What was the bedroom for midday siesta?

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Cubiculum diurnum

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What was the small bedroom or sleeping quarters?

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Cubiculum nocturnum or dormitorium

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What was the wing off the atrium that may contain the imagines?

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Alae

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13
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What room was always next to the kitchen, the bathroom?

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Latrina

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14
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What was the kitchen?

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Culina

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15
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What was the dinning room?

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Triclinium

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What large room on the side of the peristylum contained permanent seating for lectures?

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Exedra

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What was the name for the extra rooms used as halls, saloons, parlors, drawing rooms, banquet halls, or reception rooms?

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Oeci

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18
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What were the outdoor rooms used for relaxation?

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Diaetae

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19
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What was the room used for sunbathing?

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Solarium

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What was the room used as a private chapel with shrines to the gods for worship?

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Sacrarium

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21
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What was the regular garden?

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Hortus

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22
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What was the formal elaborate garden?

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Xystus

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A room usually on the wing of the peristylum were slaves slept?

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Cellae servorum

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What was the threshold?

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Limen

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What was the balcony?
Maenianum
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What were the stepping stones from the streets to the house?
Pondera
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What type of atrium had a roof formed by two pairs of beams crossing each other at right angles to form a square compluvium, no columns?
Tuscanicum
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What type of atrium had four columns at each angle supporting the beams?
Tetrastylon
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What type of atrium had more than four columns supporting the beams?
Corinthium
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What type of atrium had the roof sloped outward to gutters for catching rain water, but still had a compluvium
Displuvinatum
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What type of atrium did not have an impluvium or a compluvium?
Testudinatum
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What was the door?
Ianua
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What was the from door?
Ostium
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Who were the door keepers?
Ianuarius or Ostiatius
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What was the term for double doors?
Fores
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What was the back or side door?
Posticum
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What was the torch of inflammable wood and oil kept near the door?
Fax, facis, F.
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What were the bolts?
Pessuli
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What were the bars used to fasten doors?
Serae
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What was the couch or bed?
Lectus or Torus
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What was the bed post that had detachable head or elbow rest?
Fulcrum
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What was the marriage couch in the atrium opposite the ostium?
Lectus adversus
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What was a pillow or cushion?
Puvinus
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What was the foot stool used to reach the bed?
Scamnum
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What was had four legs and no back?
Sedile
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What was the stool for one person?
Sella
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What was the stool for more than one person, a bench?
Subsellium
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What was the "curule seat" which had curved legs of ivory that could be folded up?
Sella curulis
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What was the up right, high-backed chair with solid arms?
Solium
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What was the chair with a curved back and no arms?
Cathedra
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What was the chair with no arms and a back that was slanted at a comfortable angle?
Cathedra supina
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What was the table?
mensa
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What small table had only one leg?
Monopodium
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What rectangular table had a raised rim for holding plates and dishes?
Abacus
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What table had three legs?
Mensa delphica
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What was the semicircle-shaped dining couch?
Sigma
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What Roman lamp used oil?
Lucerna
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What instrument was used to hold many lucerna?
Candelabrum
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What torch or lamp usually hung from the ceiling?
Lychnus
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What was the large metal stove that held coal and had large handles for carrying from room to room for warmth?
Foculus
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What was the cabinet or cupboard used as a closet?
Armarium
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What was the strongbox or chest that was kept in the tablinum?
Arca
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What was the clock?
Horologium
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What sundial was brought from Greece in 268 BC?
Solarium
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What was the staff on the sundial?
Gnomon
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What was the water clock?
Clepsydra
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What was unburned brick or old block walls?
Lateres crudi
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What walls used large dressed stone laid out in horizontal rectangular courses?
Opus quadratum
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What walls used massive horizontal and vertical dressed blocks of smaller bolck?
Opus africanum
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What walls were made of mostly concrete in Classical times?
Opus caementicium
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What material was made of volcanic ash or lime used to make concrete?
Lapis Putedanus
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What triangular burnt bricks accompanied cement walls and made up the core base of them?
Lateres cocti
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What wall used a concrete core wall with brick or tile facing?
Opus testaecum
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What wall used bricks joined together by cement irregularly?
Opus incertum
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What wall used bricks of equal shape and size?
Opus reticulatum
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What wall used long and short masonry blocks on it?
Opus vittatum
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What wall had a mosaic on the interior?
Opus Vermiculatum
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What were the pieces of glass used in a mosaic?
Tesserae
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What was a window or hole in the wall?
Fenestra
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What were closed shutters over a tiny window?
Iunctae
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What were the subrectangular, slightly tapered tiles for roofing?
Tegulae
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What were decorated roof tiles?
Lacus
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What were the floors of the poor, made of stones, bricks, and tiles pounded together?
Pavimentum
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What was patterned floor surfacing?
Opus sectile
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What was the water proof lining for cisterns?
Opus signinum
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Who were the household gods?
Lares
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Wo were the gods of the cupboards?
Penates
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What were the dinning couches?
Lecti tricliniares
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Which seat was the highest place?
locus summus
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Which seat was the middle place?
Locus medius
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Which seat was the lowest place?
Locus imus
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Which seat was the place of honor for the consul?
Locus consularis

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