. Pompeii : its life and art . Shop. i> i X 3 * S /<?m Fig. 167. — Plan of a house without a compluvium (V. v. 2).b. Fauces. e. Atrium. f. Light court. k. D ining room. 1. Hearth. Cister irb. At the rear a light court (/) was constructed, which furnishedlight and air by means of broad windows, not only to the atrium,but also to the adjoining room g and indirectly to the diningroom /•, which had a window opening on g. This arrangement, however, is in part the result of laterchanges. Originally the room marked g belonged to the court,/, and the house consisted of two parts, separated by a
. Pompeii : its life and art . Shop. i> i X 3 * S /<?m Fig. 167. — Plan of a house without a compluvium (V. v. 2).b. Fauces. e. Atrium. f. Light court. k. D ining room. 1. Hearth. Cister irb. At the rear a light court (/) was constructed, which furnishedlight and air by means of broad windows, not only to the atrium,but also to the adjoining room g and indirectly to the diningroom /•, which had a window opening on g. This arrangement, however, is in part the result of laterchanges. Originally the room marked g belonged to the court,/, and the house consisted of two parts, separated by a narrowarea. The kitchen was then in the low room (z), above which . 33* POMPKII. was a correspondingly low chamber, the height of the two roomsbeing only equal to that of the dining room (/). In later times, however, the hearth was moved to thecorner of the atrium (i), the smoke be-ing let out through a small window inthe wall. A stairway, partly of wood,led to the upper rooms at the front ofthe house. Along the street ran a stonebench, protected by a roof projectingover it. The water from the roofs fell into thelight court f, and was collected in a cis-tern. We give a transverse sectionacross f and g (Fig. 168), showing thearrangement of the roofs, doors, andwindow at the rear. On the wrall of g is scratched the in-scription, Furesforas,frugi intra, — The thieves are outside, thehonest folk within. Fig. 168. — Transverse sectionof the house without a com-pluvium. At the left, light court (/), withstairs (Ji) leading to an up-per room over i. At theright, room g, with the win-dow opening into the din-ing room k. III. The House of the Emperor Joseph II A good e
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