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The Roman House Flashcards

1
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What was the open courtyard between the street and the door to the house?

A

Vestibulum

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2
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What was the door?

A

Ostium or ianua

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3
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What was the passage or entrance to the atrium?

A

Fauces

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4
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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?

A

Impluvium

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6
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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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7
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What was the room separated from the atrium by curtains, also known as the master’s study?

A

Tablinum

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8
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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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10
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What was the bedroom for midday siesta?

A

Cubiculum diurnum

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11
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What was the small bedroom or sleeping quarters?

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Cubiculum nocturnum or dormitorium

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12
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What was the wing off the atrium that may contain the imagines?

A

Alae

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

A

Latrina

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14
Q

What was the kitchen?

A

Culina

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15
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What was the dinning room?

A

Triclinium

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16
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What large room on the side of the peristylum contained permanent seating for lectures?

A

Exedra

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17
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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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20
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What was the room used as a private chapel with shrines to the gods for worship?

A

Sacrarium

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21
Q

What was the regular garden?

A

Hortus

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22
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What was the formal elaborate garden?

A

Xystus

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23
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A room usually on the wing of the peristylum were slaves slept?

A

Cellae servorum

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24
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What was the threshold?

A

Limen

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25
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What was the balcony?

A

Maenianum

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26
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What were the stepping stones from the streets to the house?

A

Pondera

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27
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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?

A

Tuscanicum

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28
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What type of atrium had four columns at each angle supporting the beams?

A

Tetrastylon

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29
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What type of atrium had more than four columns supporting the beams?

A

Corinthium

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30
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What type of atrium had the roof sloped outward to gutters for catching rain water, but still had a compluvium

A

Displuvinatum

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31
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What type of atrium did not have an impluvium or a compluvium?

A

Testudinatum

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32
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What was the door?

A

Ianua

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33
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What was the from door?

A

Ostium

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34
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Who were the door keepers?

A

Ianuarius or Ostiatius

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35
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What was the term for double doors?

A

Fores

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36
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What was the back or side door?

A

Posticum

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37
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What was the torch of inflammable wood and oil kept near the door?

A

Fax, facis, F.

38
Q

What were the bolts?

A

Pessuli

39
Q

What were the bars used to fasten doors?

A

Serae

40
Q

What was the couch or bed?

A

Lectus or Torus

41
Q

What was the bed post that had detachable head or elbow rest?

A

Fulcrum

42
Q

What was the marriage couch in the atrium opposite the ostium?

A

Lectus adversus

43
Q

What was a pillow or cushion?

A

Puvinus

44
Q

What was the foot stool used to reach the bed?

A

Scamnum

45
Q

What was had four legs and no back?

A

Sedile

46
Q

What was the stool for one person?

A

Sella

47
Q

What was the stool for more than one person, a bench?

A

Subsellium

48
Q

What was the “curule seat” which had curved legs of ivory that could be folded up?

A

Sella curulis

49
Q

What was the up right, high-backed chair with solid arms?

A

Solium

50
Q

What was the chair with a curved back and no arms?

A

Cathedra

51
Q

What was the chair with no arms and a back that was slanted at a comfortable angle?

A

Cathedra supina

52
Q

What was the table?

A

mensa

53
Q

What small table had only one leg?

A

Monopodium

54
Q

What rectangular table had a raised rim for holding plates and dishes?

A

Abacus

55
Q

What table had three legs?

A

Mensa delphica

56
Q

What was the semicircle-shaped dining couch?

A

Sigma

57
Q

What Roman lamp used oil?

A

Lucerna

58
Q

What instrument was used to hold many lucerna?

A

Candelabrum

59
Q

What torch or lamp usually hung from the ceiling?

A

Lychnus

60
Q

What was the large metal stove that held coal and had large handles for carrying from room to room for warmth?

A

Foculus

61
Q

What was the cabinet or cupboard used as a closet?

A

Armarium

62
Q

What was the strongbox or chest that was kept in the tablinum?

A

Arca

63
Q

What was the clock?

A

Horologium

64
Q

What sundial was brought from Greece in 268 BC?

A

Solarium

65
Q

What was the staff on the sundial?

A

Gnomon

66
Q

What was the water clock?

A

Clepsydra

67
Q

What was unburned brick or old block walls?

A

Lateres crudi

68
Q

What walls used large dressed stone laid out in horizontal rectangular courses?

A

Opus quadratum

69
Q

What walls used massive horizontal and vertical dressed blocks of smaller bolck?

A

Opus africanum

70
Q

What walls were made of mostly concrete in Classical times?

A

Opus caementicium

71
Q

What material was made of volcanic ash or lime used to make concrete?

A

Lapis Putedanus

72
Q

What triangular burnt bricks accompanied cement walls and made up the core base of them?

A

Lateres cocti

73
Q

What wall used a concrete core wall with brick or tile facing?

A

Opus testaecum

74
Q

What wall used bricks joined together by cement irregularly?

A

Opus incertum

75
Q

What wall used bricks of equal shape and size?

A

Opus reticulatum

76
Q

What wall used long and short masonry blocks on it?

A

Opus vittatum

77
Q

What wall had a mosaic on the interior?

A

Opus Vermiculatum

78
Q

What were the pieces of glass used in a mosaic?

A

Tesserae

79
Q

What was a window or hole in the wall?

A

Fenestra

80
Q

What were closed shutters over a tiny window?

A

Iunctae

81
Q

What were the subrectangular, slightly tapered tiles for roofing?

A

Tegulae

82
Q

What were decorated roof tiles?

A

Lacus

83
Q

What were the floors of the poor, made of stones, bricks, and tiles pounded together?

A

Pavimentum

84
Q

What was patterned floor surfacing?

A

Opus sectile

85
Q

What was the water proof lining for cisterns?

A

Opus signinum

86
Q

Who were the household gods?

A

Lares

87
Q

Wo were the gods of the cupboards?

A

Penates

88
Q

What were the dinning couches?

A

Lecti tricliniares

89
Q

Which seat was the highest place?

A

locus summus

90
Q

Which seat was the middle place?

A

Locus medius

91
Q

Which seat was the lowest place?

A

Locus imus

92
Q

Which seat was the place of honor for the consul?

A

Locus consularis

Customs, PMAQ, Geo (43 decks)

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