A dictionary of Greek and Roman . atrium,tablinum, peristyle, &c, is best illustrated by thehouses which have been disinterred at ground-plan of two is accordingly first is the plan of a house, usually called thehouse of the tragic poet. Like most of the other houses at Pompeii, ithad no vestibulum according to the meaning whichwe have attached to the word. 1. The ostium orentrance hall, which is six feet wide and nearlythirty long. Near the street door there is a figureof a large fierce dog worked in mosaic on thepavement, and beneath it is written Cave
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . atrium,tablinum, peristyle, &c, is best illustrated by thehouses which have been disinterred at ground-plan of two is accordingly first is the plan of a house, usually called thehouse of the tragic poet. Like most of the other houses at Pompeii, ithad no vestibulum according to the meaning whichwe have attached to the word. 1. The ostium orentrance hall, which is six feet wide and nearlythirty long. Near the street door there is a figureof a large fierce dog worked in mosaic on thepavement, and beneath it is written Cave two large rooms on each side of the vestibuleappear from the large openings in front of them tohave been shops ; they communicate with the en-trance hall, and were therefore probably occupiedby the master of the house. 2. The atrium, whichis about twenty-eight feet in length and twenty inbreadth; its impluvium is near the centre of theroom, and its floor is paved with white tesserae,spotted with black. 3. Chambers for the use of.
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